Andrew Eagles

Hamas still controls half of Gaza.

Hezbollah is still in Lebanon.

And Iran is playing its regional game again.

And this is why he's in somewhat political distress.

Yeah, this is quite a big data dump from Stats New Zealand.

So it's called the business financial data for the first quarter.

And it's one of the last sort of key inputs into our first quarter growth, our GDP number due to be released.

This is quasi-medieval, really.

I mean, we talk about numbers from January and February.

But look, it provides an important starting point for the second quarter.

They were the biggest contributor.

You strip those out and there's only a 1.6% lift in volumes now.

On that agri front, Heather, I am heading down to field days today, so I will let you know tomorrow what the agri vibe is like.

The Dow Jones is down about 20 points, 50,768.

And people are getting a little bit optimistic about the Strait of Hormuz and more oil going through there.

Brent crude has fallen $91.72.

So that's two Green MPs that we've learned about this week who we'd never heard of before.

How can we have massive commitments if we've got no policy?

We've got a massive list of things that we've got to pay for, but you said that we also haven't got more policy.

We'll have to wait till 11 o'clock and Barbara Ebens will be able to tell you all the details.