Greg Smith

NASDAQ down 1.1%, 24621.

FTSE 100 up 0.1% in the UK, 10332.

Nikkei down 1%, 59917 on that meeting.

In Japan, ASX200 down 0.6%, 8710.

NZX50, we were down 0.9%, 12764.

Gold down $86, 4595 an ounce.

Oil, we're always watching that, aren't we?

That is up at $100 even for WTI, up 4%.

Currencies, Kiwi weaker across the board, 58.9% for the US, that's down 0.4%.

British pound, 43.6%, down 0.2%.

Japanese yen down 0.3%, 93.9%.

And against the Australian dollar, we are under 82, 81.95%, down 0.3%.

The U.S.

I'm going to designate today, April 28th, Annie O'Brien Day, because it took one woman with a free Substack account to break a story that sadly no one else here did.

Well, if it's accurately reported, it's absolutely disgraceful.

But the fact that it hasn't been a story for nearly a year is in itself a disgraceful double standard.

Because we all know that in the same circumstances, a member of Parliament would have got wall-to-wall coverage night after night after night, don't we?

Well, that's exactly right.

But the point is that our bank sat on its hands for too long.

We sold New Zealand Rail.