IS Claims Iran Attack, Treasury Bets Surge & Europe's Housing Shortage

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Islamic State claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Iran that killed scores of people and threatened to further inflame tensions in the Middle East. (2) The options market for US Treasuries was abuzz Thursday following the emergence of a large bearish wager that Friday’s jobs report will trigger the biggest backup in benchmark yields in more than nine months. (3) As housing shortages cause rents and home prices to surge across major European cities, investors have the capacity to inject an estimated 82 billion euros in new residential projects over the next two years. (4) Huawei’s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough. (5) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested he plans to call a UK general election in the fall, as he sought to silence growing calls from opposition parties for a vote in May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.