Morning,
It's a big beautiful world, sun is shinning, birds are chirping, 23C here.
Markets are up too.
Gold at record high, copper up.
Trump looking at GST/VAT as a tariff on US goods, which it is of course.
Trump also says he going to see if Russia, China and US can do a deal to half the military spend.
This would be a good step towards peace imo, nukes are a waste of time these days.
Ukraine peace deal in progress, looking ok on that front i think.
ASX futures up.
RFK Jr sworn in.
Coinbase up about 10%
Tesla 5%, might be to do with talk of $400mil armor car Gov deal....?
Brazil cuts GDP forecast, lifts inflation outlook. Policies matter.
NZ food prices up 1.9% in Jan.
Too early for our RBA to cut imo.
