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Morning,

Markets doing well, up nicely, must have been happy with Powell's dovish talk.

Aussie traders have pushed out rate cuts here until after the next election which i suppose is good news for Dutton.

Victoria seems to be running a $33 million a day interest bill by 2027 with net debt of nearly $250 billion!
Is that enough State debt? Seems a lot to me. article in the a fr.

US productivity down a bit, won't help interest rates cuts imo. Labor costs up 4.7% aswell.

U up again. Bitcoin in the high 50k's, Gold back to 2300, oil not doing much last night.

Gazprom makes a loss of 629 billion rubles, compared to 1.2 trillion profit last year, first loss in 20yrs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/gazprom-plunges-to-first-annual-loss-in-20-years-as-trade-with-europe-hit-.html

Apple announces a $110 billion buy back and earnings after the close, phone sales down 10%.
Shares are up on the news. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q2-2024.html

NAB also doing a buyback i think, 1.4% or something.

Bank of Japan has been intervening in it's currency market i think.

Fun Friday today, lets hope we all do well.

No blue sky here, plenty of cloud, about 18C, maybe some light showers sometime.