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Hello, I'm Simon Long, the Economist's Finance Editor, and this is Money Talks.

A rather different and much more somber start to the programme than usual this week.

Last night a bomb blast struck a concert at the Manchester

Arena. As of recording, 22 people are known to have been killed and another 59 injured.

It was the worst terrorist atrocity in Britain since the London bombings

12 years ago. Many children and teenagers attended the concert and some are among the dead

and wounded. Messages of support for the UK and of condemnation for the attacker whose identity

has not been announced and whose motivation remains unknown have flooded in thick and fast

from world leaders and on social media.

I'm now joined by Philip Kogan, our Buttonwood columnist, to talk through how we might expect

the aftermath of this attack to play out on the financial stage. Philip Hallo.

Let us first send our sympathies to all those involved and the families of the bereaved and say that

by comparison what happens to the markets is trivial and of little consequence.

And if the attackers were trying to affect the UK economy

and affect confidence, then there's absolutely no impact

on the markets whatsoever. There is nothing happening to the stock markets, the currency, all the bond markets

to indicate that investors have been affected.

And that has been the pattern with many recent terrorist attacks.

Markets have just regarded this as unfortunate and tragic background noise but

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