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

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, the twenty ninth of October twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I'm Michael Thompson, and every afternoon we bring you the

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Speaker 1: five stories that happened today that you need to know about.

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Speaker 1: Let's go but story number one. The S and p

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Speaker 1: ASX two hundred closed one percent lower today after a

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Speaker 1: much higher than expected inflation figure wiped out hopes really

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Speaker 1: of a rate cut next week. The BOSS closed at

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Speaker 1: eighty nine hundred and twenty six points, with the big

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Speaker 1: banks weighing heavily on the market. After that September quarter,

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Speaker 1: CPI data showed an increase in underlying inflation to one

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Speaker 1: percent for the quarter. The RBA had forecast zero point

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Speaker 1: six percent, economists were tipping zero point eight percent, and

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Speaker 1: really everybody was wrong. We'll have more on this one

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. But Commonwealth Bank closed two point one percent lower,

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Speaker 1: and NAB was off two point six percent, Westpac three

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Speaker 1: point one percent, A and Z zero point four percent down.

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Speaker 1: The real estate sector also bore the brunt of it.

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Speaker 1: It is, of course sensitive to interest rates. Stockland closed

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Speaker 1: almost four percent lower and Goodman Group was off one

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Speaker 1: point four percent. Healthcare stocks had a shocker as well,

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Speaker 1: led by biotech giant CSL, which fell another four percent

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Speaker 1: today after its huge plunge yesterday after an earnings down grade.

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Speaker 1: We'll move almost seamlessly now into story number two because

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of corporate news around and we

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Speaker 1: saw this playing out on the market. Led by Woolworths,

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Speaker 1: it reported supermarket sales the retailer's oney one hundred stores.

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Speaker 1: It grew by two point one percent to just under

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Speaker 1: fourteen billion dollars in the quarter to October five. Willie's

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Speaker 1: shares closed two point four percent higher today. Furniture retailer

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Speaker 1: Nick scally has posted a six percent jump in sales

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Speaker 1: across the September quarter. Its share price was up thirteen

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Speaker 1: percent today. Nick Scarley's Australian operation has been strong. Its

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Speaker 1: UK business Fab has also picked up That's Fab with

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Speaker 1: the double B. Gina Reinhart Atlas Iron blamed cyclonic weather

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Speaker 1: rather and lower iron ore prices for a forty one

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Speaker 1: percent fall in full year profit. Atlas is a subsidiary

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Speaker 1: of Reinhart's private mining vehicle Handcock Prospecting. It is a

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Speaker 1: major source of income for Australia's richest person. Uranium minor

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Speaker 1: Boss Energy reported a strong September production result, led by

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Speaker 1: its Honeymoon uranium operations in South Australia. Cracking Day up

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Speaker 1: twenty percent today, and Ansel has raised its full year

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Speaker 1: earnings guidance after a solid first quarter with favorable currency

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Speaker 1: moves and lower costs supporting margins. Its share price jumped

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Speaker 1: almost six percent today onto story number three. Now and

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Speaker 1: former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has weighed in on the

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Speaker 1: coalition's internal fight over net zero, warning that I quote

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Speaker 1: net zero at any cost on any rigid timetable is

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Speaker 1: not policy, It's just ideology. Morrison negotiated a deal between

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Speaker 1: the Libs and That's to support net zero back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but he says his approach was driven

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Speaker 1: by technology, not taxes, and that private capital and not

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Speaker 1: government mandates, would drive lower emissions. His comments come as

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Speaker 1: the Libs and That's prepare for what's expected to be

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Speaker 1: a fiery joint party room meeting next week over whether

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Speaker 1: to keep or abandon the target. Story number four Construction

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Speaker 1: industry super fun SeaBus has agreed to pay a twenty

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Speaker 1: three point five million dollar penalty after being sued by

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Speaker 1: ASSEK for widespread failures in processing death and disability claims.

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Speaker 1: The regulator says more than ten thousand claims were delayed,

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Speaker 1: leaving members and families nearly twenty million dollars out of pocket. SeaBus,

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Speaker 1: which manages around one hundred billion dollars, also agreed to

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Speaker 1: cover assex costs and invest in improving its internal systems.

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Speaker 1: The regulator said the conduct caused quote, financial and other

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Speaker 1: harm to claimants and beneficiaries. The Federal court still does

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Speaker 1: need to approve the settlement and finally, story number five,

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Speaker 1: Hurricane Melissa is now bearing down on Cuba's second largest city,

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Speaker 1: Santiago to Cuba. After smashing into Jamaica with winds close

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Speaker 1: to three hundred kilometers an hour that is the strongest

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Speaker 1: ever recorded on the island. Entire towns were flooded, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands lost power, hospitals and roads suffered major damage.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister of Jamaica said while no deaths had

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Speaker 1: been confirmed, the devastation was severe and the government was

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Speaker 1: bracing for casualties. Melissa has weakened slightly to a Category

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Speaker 1: four storm, but remains extremely dangerous as it moves northeast

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Speaker 1: towards Cuba and towards the Bahamas as well. The World

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Speaker 1: Meteorological Organization called it for Jamaica the storm of the century.

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Speaker 1: And that's it for the afternoon report for Wednesday, the

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