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LOCAL market highest level since early October. SOLID gains in technology stocks. RESOURCES-linked stocks and INDUSTRIAL companies. Market participants weighed fresh corporate EARNINGS from global firms and China’s additional STIMULUS measures following SLUGGISH economic data. Locally, investor attention is turning toward the upcoming CPI INFLATION data, which may influence the outlook for the central bank’s INTEREST rate policy.
KOALA washes ashore.
METEOROLOGISTS face pushback despite accurate STORM forecast technology.
Read the NBC article here https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew1wq8dr02o
CUBA’s grid COLLAPSE.
Read it here https://www.vox.com/politics/379206/cuba-power-grid-collapse-castro-venezuela-oil-blackout-russia
TAR balls INVADE beaches.
Read about it https://newsgpt.ai/2024/10/17/tar-balls-invade-sydneys-beaches-bondi-beach-closed/
Scientists CLAIM breakthrough to bringing back Tasmanian TIGER from extinction.
INTEREST: NASA launches mission to investigate potentially HABITABLE ocean world.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/14/science/europa-clipper-nasa-launch/index.html
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