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Podcast: Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition
Episode: US Shutdown Begins As Stocks Drop & Gold Rallies On Funding Standoff
Description: Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Congress blew past a midnight funding deadline, triggering the US government’s first shutdown in nearly seven years — and the third under President Donald Trump. (2) US equity-index futures fell as the deadline to avert a government shutdown lapsed, disrupting one of the country’s largest employers and threatening to delay key economic data releases(3) Pfizer has won a reprieve from the US President's threatened tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry. The drugmaker agreed to cut some prices by up to...