Gavin Friend

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NAB Morning Call · The Waiting Game · 7 May 2026 podcast

But I think we should just remember there were some comments not that long ago matched

uh Iran's foreign minister saying actually it's still reviewing the messages as conveyed by the mediators in Pakistan. matched

It hasn't yet reached a decision. matched

So we're kind of all getting a bit excited and there's lots of understandable news wire flurry in between and we just haven't had a decision from them yet. matched

You know, I'm not saying it's going to be positive or negative. matched

It's just we haven't had it. matched

Yeah, yeah, so so that's three hundred thousand job losses year to date. matched

Um but if you think about April's cuts were down twenty one percent uh on year in year terms. matched

You're right, it is coming from the tech uh sector. matched

Um, you know, uh AI obviously uh you know the th the thought of driver here. matched

Tech companies continue to matched

Um, I mean they've got eighty five thousand jobs, uh job cuts planned, uh up thirty three percent uh on uh uh the same period last year. matched

So while overall pace is declining, it's going up in the tech sector. matched

Um, but you know, ahead of as you talk about ahead of non-farm payrolls, we also had weekly claims. matched

I mean, they're pretty benign, two hundred thousand, up from la uh the prior weeks, hundred and ninety thousand low ball. matched

But where continuing claims, you know, those longer term unemployment claims continues to trend lower, suggesting alongside other job labor market indicators that there is, you know, some signs of labor market stabilization. matched

We also had matched

Productivity growth numbers uh in Q one it continues to rise. matched

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Which is matched

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