The Saturday Edition | 1 August 2026
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What is the new format and purpose of The Saturday Edition revamp?
This is the Saturday edition of Fear and Greed, business news you can use. I'm Michael Thompson and good morning, Sean Aylmer. Morning, Michael. Sean, we made a few little tweaks and changes to the Saturday edition. In just a couple of minutes, we're going to make sure that you are across the biggest stories of the week, everything you need to know from the week. You'll learn all of that in just a couple of minutes. Then the rest of the show. all new. Stories that we haven't covered through the week, stories that we think might need a bit of a deeper dive, stories that honestly have no place on a business podcast, which is why they are now on the Saturday edition. It is still a competition. There is still a winner.
So we welcome our judge, Adam Lang. Adam, good morning. Good morning. What fresh adventure do we have today?
We are not sure. We are just not sure. We're going to have a fresh adventure. That is true. But we're just tweaking things. I don't think we've quite got there yet. Michael, would you agree with me? Work in progress. Why not just have a crack?
You know what? It makes every Saturday exciting. And look, I suspect I'm not the only one who wakes up on Saturday mornings and goes, what will fear and greed have in store for me today? So let's kick it off with the news wrap. They've got to come up with a sexier name for it than that, Sean. Okay. The news wrap. Yeah. We'll workshop that one. Two-minute twinkles. Yeah, we are not calling it the Two Minute Twinkles. That sounds completely inappropriate. Remember, this is a family show. So, it doesn't sound like that to you, Adam? No.
Nor to me. Nor to me.
Okay. All right. Okay. Two Minute Twinkles it is. Let's go with the Two Minute Twinkles. Sean, you are going to give us a number of stories that are the big stories from the week. Adam... Without overthinking it or overanalyzing it. Oh, dear. That's a task. You are to judge. You're just to give a score out of 10 for these stories. Okay. In one or two sentences, give us the first big story of the week. Go.
Number one, lower than expected inflation figures. Big four banks now think rates are on hold for the year. Adam? Nine. Massive. Absolutely brilliant news. Hey, we don't want commentary. We want to score. Come on. This is what we're about here. Rio Tinto, boom, profit, boom, dividend, given dividends now relatively more attractive than capital gains. We could see a lot more dividends this reporting season. Adam? Seven. Very impressive. Big moves in markets. At one point, the ASX less than 2% off its all-time high, then came tumbling back, then rose again. Adam? Eight. Eight. There you go. Victoria got a new premiere with Jacinta Allen forced out, replaced by Ben Carroll.
Four.
Yeah, right. Jerry Harvey got criticized by a federal court judge for not looking after customers. Origin Energy said the recent cyber attack affected 900,000 customers. Qantas' Project Sunrise took a big step forward. Flight from Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours, 24 minutes. New record, Adam?
What are the week's top headlines in the Two Minute Twinkles news wrap?
10, 10, 10.
So Jerry Harvey's a six, right? And Sunrise flight, yeah, that's probably a seven.
Right about the Origin Energy cyber attack.
Uh, seven.
Okay, so that's 20 out of 10 for those, because it was all one story, actually. You put the three of them together.
Well done. Well, 20 out of 10. Project Sunrise deserves a 20 out of 10 just for that. What an incredible feat of engineering. And to actually score a new world record unofficially at this point until it's confirmed for the, what was it, 24 hours and 24 minutes in the air? That is just extraordinary. And 20,000 litres extra of fuel on board.
Extra.
That's what blows me away.
Yeah.
How? Where does it fit?
How long would it take to fill that up? Honestly, I'm assuming they're not using the same, like, bowser and pump that we have. Oh, they might get to press that mysterious button on the bowser that says high flow diesel. Have you ever seen that on there? No. And I've always wanted to press it.
Anyway. While Michael was garbing on there, did you know that, like, so a Dreamliner 777, it holds about 150,000 litres of fuel?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the new format and purpose of The Saturday Edition revamp?
0:06–3:24
2
What are the week's top headlines in the Two Minute Twinkles news wrap?
3:24–5:38
3
Why do economists think lower inflation could keep interest rates on hold?
5:38–6:21
4
What happened with Rio Tinto dividends and what could it mean for reporting season?
6:21–17:40
5
Why did tech stocks, especially the MAG-7, swing wildly this week?
17:40–30:16
Speakers
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