Thursday 6 February 2025

Donald Trump says the USA will take over the Gaza Strip.

And more, including:

• New federal money for public hospitals as Canberra bans bureaucrats from using DeepSeek AI.
• A boom year for the Future Fund.
• Plus the local share market jumps and Alphabet’s massive spending on data centres.

And don’t miss the latest episode of How Do They Afford That? - beware the pitfalls of property investing. Get the episode from APPLE, SPOTIFY, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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Nicholas Moore AO spent more than 30 years at Macquarie Group, including a decade as CEO.

Among other things, he's now Australia's Special Envoy for Southeast Asia, and explains to Sean Aylmer why the region is such a rich opportunity for Australian business.

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This is the Fear and Greed Afternoon Report - everything you need to know about what happened in the markets, economy and world of business today, in just a few minutes.

1. ASX up

2. $1.7b for hospitals

3. Transurban target

4. Alphabet tumbles

5. Swedish mass shooting

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