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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fear and Greed Business News Afternoon Report

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Speaker 1: for Tuesday, the fourteenth of October twenty twenty five. Are

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Speaker 1: Michael Thompson. Every afternoon, we've got the five stories that

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Speaker 1: happen today that you need to know about. Let's get

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Speaker 1: cracking with story number one. The S and p ASX

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Speaker 1: two hundred closed zero point two percent higher today to

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Speaker 1: eighty nine hundred points with the miners doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of the heavy lifting across really gold, silver, end iron

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Speaker 1: or let's start with gold though. The big day for

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Speaker 1: miners of the precious metal hit yet another record today.

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Speaker 1: It just seems to keep doing that right above four

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Speaker 1: one hundred US dollars and ounce. Neumont climbed four point

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Speaker 1: five percent, Northern Star almost three percent, Evolution nearly two percent.

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Speaker 1: I could just keep going. The list is very long,

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Speaker 1: but perhaps even more exciting today as a silver miners,

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Speaker 1: silver mines and suns, silver Andy and silver Unico silver,

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Speaker 1: all of them were up between six point five and

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Speaker 1: seven point three percent today, the price of silver hitting

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Speaker 1: a record high as well, just quickly. A couple of

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Speaker 1: the losers today, which doesn't actually sound very nice, but

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Speaker 1: the ones that lost ground the big four banks, the

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Speaker 1: big insurers IAG, Suncorp and QBE. Retailers like Wes Farmers

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Speaker 1: and JB Hi Fi closed lower today on the back

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Speaker 1: of weaker consumer confidence, and that was according to the

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Speaker 1: latest an Z Roy Morgan survey. On to story number two.

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Speaker 1: Now and the phone numbers of some of Australia's most

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Speaker 1: high profile politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi and Opposition

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Speaker 1: leader Susan Lee, have been published online by a US

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Speaker 1: based website that scrapes and compiles personal data using artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: The government has directed security agencies to investigate after the details,

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Speaker 1: which apparently include phone numbers and email addresses and some

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Speaker 1: other bits and pieces, were made publicly available. The website

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Speaker 1: claims the data is sourced from publicly available profiles and

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Speaker 1: offers an opt out option. Though some numbers apparently are inaccurate,

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Speaker 1: it does go well beyond just Australian politicians. There are

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Speaker 1: global figures included in this leak. We'll have a bit

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Speaker 1: more on that one tomorrow morning. Story number three. Virgin

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Speaker 1: Australia is cutting economy passengers carry on allowance as part

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Speaker 1: of a push to improve boarding times and streamline operations.

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Speaker 1: Under the changes, passengers will be allowed just a single

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Speaker 1: bag weighing up to eight kilograms, plus a small personal item.

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Speaker 1: The new rules come in to effect on the second

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Speaker 1: of February next year, replacing the current policy allowing two

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Speaker 1: bags with a combined weight of seven kilograms. Virgin says

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Speaker 1: the move is based on customer and staff feedback that

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Speaker 1: it's going to simplify the boarding process and deliver a

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Speaker 1: more consistent experience, basically by the sounds where people just

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Speaker 1: get sick of waiting for you to jam something that's

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Speaker 1: too big or too many bags into the overhead compartments.

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Speaker 1: Premium passengers and Elite Velocity members do not worry, though,

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Speaker 1: you will still be allowed two bags weighing a combined

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Speaker 1: fourteen kilograms. The new policy also applies apparently to short

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Speaker 1: haul international flights. Story number four nine Radio has posted

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Speaker 1: a strong recovery and the latest radio ratings out today,

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Speaker 1: just weeks after confirming that it was exploring a sale

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Speaker 1: of its talkback stations. Flagship Sydney station two GB recorded

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Speaker 1: gains across all key timeslots, led by Ben Fordham's Breakfast Show,

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Speaker 1: reclaiming the top spot from Kyle Sandalans and Jackie Oh,

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Speaker 1: the Kiss FM duo slipped back to thirteen point six percent,

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Speaker 1: still a strong result. Novas Fitzi Whipper and Kate Richie

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Speaker 1: were third with eight point six percent. Morning host on

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Speaker 1: two GB Mark Levy surge back to number one, a

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Speaker 1: three point four point lift to fourteen point nine percent.

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Speaker 1: In Melbourne, the nine Powerhouse three AW strengthened its lead,

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Speaker 1: with breakfast hosts Ross Stevenson and Russell Holcroft rising to

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Speaker 1: a twenty point three percent share. It is a behemoth

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Speaker 1: of a show that one. In Brisbane, though four BC's

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Speaker 1: Breakfast Show fell to a record low of three point

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Speaker 1: six percent, and Perth six PR suffered its weakest result

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Speaker 1: in over a decade, so very much a mixed res

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Speaker 1: ZLT for nine radio stations. There some better news meanwhile

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Speaker 1: for ABC Radio stations, recording gains in Sydney and Melbourne

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Speaker 1: after some pretty lackluster results over quite a long period

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Speaker 1: of time. Finally, story number five, US President Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has returned to Washington after a lightning visit to Israel

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Speaker 1: and Egypt, where he signed a peace agreement alongside other

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Speaker 1: world leaders. The role of the President in negotiating the

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Speaker 1: Gaza ceasefire deal has been well really widely praised, including

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Speaker 1: by former US President Bill Clinton. All twenty Israeli hostages

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Speaker 1: released by HERMAS as part of the deal have now

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Speaker 1: been reunited with their families, though many are suffering from

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Speaker 1: health complications. After more than two years in captivity, the

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Speaker 1: Red Cross says it has overseen the return of more

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Speaker 1: than eighteen hundred Palestinian detainees to Gaza and the West Bank.

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Speaker 1: The bodies of four Israeli hostages have been recovered for identification,

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Speaker 1: while HERMAS still holds the remains of twenty four more.

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Speaker 1: And that's it for the afternoon Report for Tuesday, fourteenth

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Speaker 1: of October twenty twenty five. Make sure you hit follow

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Fear and Greed. Are Michael Thompson. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: your evening.