EU Capital Market Pledge & Labour Reject City Tax Hikes

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Ukraine must be allowed to target missile crews inside Russia with European-supplied weapons, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. (2) Germany and France have agreed to make rapid progress to deepen the European Union’s capital markets to boost investment in the bloc after years of discussions, French President Emmanuel Macron said. (3) Keir Starmer’s poll-leading opposition Labour Party is seeking to reassure the City of London it is not considering further taxes on Britain’s banks if it wins power at the UK general election on July 4. (4) The White House said an Israeli strike on an encampment in Rafah that left dozens dead was devastating but would not cause President Joe Biden to freeze additional arms shipments to the country. (5) With just hours left on the clock, advisers for BHP Group and Anglo American Plc were still struggling to find a breakthrough to salvage BHP’s ambitious $49 billion takeover plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.