Friday May 25th 2018

As Phil Dobbie discusses with NAB’s David de Garis, there wasn’t a very strong response to the news that peace talks between the US and North Korea have broken down. Trump blames the Supreme Leader for being too angry. That'll help things. Similarly, there's the news that Trump is talking more about tariffs on cars. Perhaps the UK’s strong retail numbers were a bigger surprise, with the pound and the Euro outperforming today against a sliding US dollar.