Wednesday 18th April 2018

It’s been another day where US stocks have risen (a lot) based on strong earnings figures. Phil Dobbie talks to NAB’s Tapas Strickland about how the positive mood from investors means tweets about tariffs are falling on deaf ears. But there has been positive news with a concession from China, tempered by mixed forecasts from the IMF. They also look at earnings and Brexit in Britain, retail sales in China, takeouts from the RBA minutes and a look ahead to the Bank of Canada meeting tonight.