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Andrew Sheridan, Optus Vice President, Government and Regulatory

Inflation lowers to 3.5% year-on-year, as subsidies impact; a tough year for Woolworths ends up on the balance sheet; Adairs prepares for pillow crisis; softer ad market hurting Nine; stepping up the fight against text message scams; and Carl Capolingua joins us for the Market Wrap.

Host: Deb Knight

Executive Producer: Tom Storey

Technical Producer: Liam Achurch

Publisher: Nine Radio

Inflation lowers to 3.5% year-on-year, as subsidies impact; a tough year for Woolworths ends up on the balance sheet; Adairs prepares for pillow crisis; softer ad market hurting Nine; stepping up the fight against text message scams; and Carl Capolingua joins us for the Market Wrap.
Host: Deb Knight
Executive Producer: Tom Storey
Technical Producer: Liam Achurch
Publisher: Nine Radio

Money News with Deb Knight - 28th August

A softer TV advertising market has offset a good result from the Olympics for Nine, but a year of media reckoning still suggests a lot of work to do for the media giant.

A softer TV advertising market has offset a good result from the Olympics for Nine, but a year of media reckoning still suggests a lot of work to do for the media giant.

Mike Sneesby, CEO of Nine Entertainment

A year of criticism has ended with Woolworths settling on a tougher earnings result.

ASX200: up 0.31%, 7,850
AUD: 66.27 US cents
GOLD: $2,508 US/oz
BITCOIN: $91,901 AUD
Supermarket giant Woolworths lifted by 3.3% after it gave a special dividend to shareholders, as underlying profits fell 0.6% to $1.7 billion.
Flight Centre has well and truly put the pandemic behind it, with strong demand for travel seeing earnings hit a new high.. Shares were up 3.7%.
Not able to cash in a winning bet was Tabcorp, with new CEO Gillon McLachlan saying the company would not meet cost-cutting targets.. shares plunged by 15% today.
Gas infrastructure operator APA Group saw its earnings lift to $1.89 billion, but shares fell by 1.5%.
And after shipping nearly 200 million tonnes of iron ore over the last financial year, Fortescue’s underlying profit rose 3% to $US5.7 billion, but shares dropped 1%.

A year of criticism has ended with Woolworths settling on a tougher earnings result.
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<li aria-level="1">ASX200: up 0.31%, 7,850</li>
<li aria-level="1">AUD: 66.27 US cents</li>
<li aria-level="1">GOLD: $2,508 US/oz</li>
<li aria-level="1">BITCOIN: $91,901 AUD</li>
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<li aria-level="1">Supermarket giant Woolworths lifted by 3.3% after it gave a special dividend to shareholders, as underlying profits fell 0.6% to $1.7 billion.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Flight Centre has well and truly put the pandemic behind it, with strong demand for travel seeing earnings hit a new high.. Shares were up 3.7%.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Not able to cash in a winning bet was Tabcorp, with new CEO Gillon McLachlan saying the company would not meet cost-cutting targets.. shares plunged by 15% today.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Gas infrastructure operator APA Group saw its earnings lift to $1.89 billion, but shares fell by 1.5%.</li>
<li aria-level="1">And after shipping nearly 200 million tonnes of iron ore over the last financial year, Fortescue’s underlying profit rose 3% to $US5.7 billion, but shares dropped 1%.</li>
</ul>

Andrew Sheridan, Optus Vice President, Government and Regulatory

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