Steve Daghlian

It provides gambling products and services like poker and also card shuffling machines.

So it forecasts delivering mid to high single digit earnings growth in 2026, including certain external factors it has little control over, like US tariffs, changes in tax rates over in the UK, which it reckons is probably going to be roughly a $40 million headwind for the group.

ARN Media today has been all over the place.

It was down about four percent about half an hour ago.

Now it's actually up by close to two percent.

This is the group behind KISS and Golden Radio Networks.

So it revealed today that the Carl and Jackie O shows axing this year has cost at least $26 million in lost advertising revenue.

due to what it calls brand safety issues.

And at the AGM today, about 90% of shareholders voted against its executive pay report.

So basically, this means a CEO's more than $1 million salary will now be under review.

As we approach the close, most of the banks are improving today.

Westpac is one of them.

It's up around 1%.

ANZ is up around three quarters of a percent.

We've had quite a few of them actually releasing their results this week.

Let's look forward from here.

Tonight, we do have the weekly update on the number of jobless claims, the number of people filing for unemployment benefits.

This is going to receive a bit of attention.

Yesterday, jobs data in the US for the private sector was a bit better than anticipated.

Also, we've got plenty of profit results tonight as well from the likes of Maccas, Shell, Coinbase, Airbnb, DraftKings, and quite a few more.