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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 sixth May twenty twenty five. I'm Sean Aelma.

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Speaker 1: Every afternoon, we've got the five stories that happened today

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Speaker 1: that you need to know about. Stray number one. The

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Speaker 1: SMPAX two hundred closed down just a touch today to

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Speaker 1: eight one hundred and fifty one points, with healthcare stocks

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Speaker 1: leading the market lower, while energy and property companies did best.

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Speaker 1: Endeavor's share price dropped another four percent, with investors impatient

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Speaker 1: about new chief executive Jane Hurdlicker. She isn't due to

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Speaker 1: begin until January one. They want her at Endeavor sooner.

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Speaker 1: Crude oil prices picked up a touch, though it's still training.

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Speaker 1: They're still trading around four year lows. That helped Woodside

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Speaker 1: in Santos. The banks were lower. National Australian Bank reports

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Speaker 1: its half year earnings tomorrow. Story number two of them. A

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Speaker 1: Quarry Annual Conference is on, and that means about one

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Speaker 1: hundred companies from the AX are presenting updates on their performances.

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Speaker 1: Some of the highlights from today. HMC Capital fell six

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Speaker 1: percent after telling investors it was in advanced talks with

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Speaker 1: hospital Operators to take control of the eleven health Scope

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Speaker 1: hospitals it owns. Sigma Healthcare also fell sharply, down around

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Speaker 1: six and a half percent, after saying it had incurred

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Speaker 1: around forty million dollars of transaction costs related to its

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Speaker 1: merger with Chemist Warehouse. Best was tab Court, which jumped

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Speaker 1: nine percent after saying it hadn't noticed a discernible change

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Speaker 1: in consumer demand, and data center builder and Operated next

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Speaker 1: DC share price jumped eight percent after it said it

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Speaker 1: was accelerating spending on new facilities following a rush of

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Speaker 1: orders straight number three. The recriminations for the Liberal Party continue.

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Speaker 1: There's a push within the party to adopt gender quotas

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Speaker 1: to help its appeal to more voters. The Libs have

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Speaker 1: a problem appealing to women. That seems pretty clear. New

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Speaker 1: South Wales's Liberal senator Maria Kovicic today said the coalition

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Speaker 1: needs to implement gender quotas to ensure more women are elected.

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Speaker 1: The lack of female support has contributed to the Liberal

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Speaker 1: Party being on track to record its lowest primary vote

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Speaker 1: since its formation in the nineteen forties. At the moment,

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Speaker 1: it has just thirty nine seats in the one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty seat House of Reps, while leadership candidates Susan Lee,

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Speaker 1: Angus Taylor, and Dan Teen are weighing up their bids

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Speaker 1: to lead the parties. National Senate leader Bridget mackenzie says

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Speaker 1: the coalition, including the Nationals, need a deep, honest and

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Speaker 1: brutal examination. Story number four Logistics technology giant wise Tech

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Speaker 1: is concerned about a potential hit to profits as a

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Speaker 1: result of Donald Trump's tariffs, saying global container volumes are

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Speaker 1: set to drop this year. Wires Tech Today warned of

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Speaker 1: uncertainty in the current geopolitical landscape, macroeconomic conditions, and the

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Speaker 1: global trading environment. It's recently made a three and a

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Speaker 1: half billion dollar bid for US based e to open

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Speaker 1: an American supply chain software business. Its share price fell

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Speaker 1: three percent today, and story number five CSL says a

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Speaker 1: reluctance to get vaccinated in the US has been challenging,

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Speaker 1: but they're encouraged by an uptick and expansion in other markets,

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Speaker 1: including Germany and France. Speaking at mcquarie's annual Confort CFO

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Speaker 1: Joy Linton said that the US experienced one of the

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Speaker 1: worst flu seasons ever, which would usually result in an

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Speaker 1: increase in doctors recommending the vaccine in the following period,

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Speaker 1: but this is unlikely to happen due to the new

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Speaker 1: Republican administration's aversion to inoculations, she said. Sayah Cell has

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Speaker 1: no confidence in vaccinations picking up, which is bad for

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Speaker 1: public health. The one hundred and twenty three billion dollar

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Speaker 1: company has produced seasonal flu vaccines since the nineteen forties.

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Speaker 1: Its share price closed down three percent today. That's it

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Speaker 1: for the afternoon report for Tuesday, the sixth of May

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Make sure you hit follow on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow morning with the Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of the past five Business News five Veering Greed. I'm

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Speaker 1: Sean Elmer. Enjoy your reading.