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Phil Dobbie discusses the current state of the Middle East and the recent RBA meeting with guest Taylor Nugent.

Wednesday 6th May 2026 NAB Markets Research Disclaimer   Financial Services Guide | Information on our services -   NAB Markets seem enthused by the fact that, today at least, things didn’t get worse in the Middle East. That said, they didn’t get any better either, and the world, meanwhile is chewing up its crude oil reserves. NAB’s Taylor Nugent joins Phil to talk through the market action and yesterday’s RBA meeting, which saw interest rates lifted, and the NAB view is that they’ll do it again at the next meeting. Taylor explains the thinking behind that, and looks ahead to New Zealand’s employment data today and the ADP jobs numbers for the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Phil Dobbie

Guest: Taylor Nugent

Topics covered

• Middle East
• RBA
• interest rates
• market analysis
• employment data
• crude oil

Keywords

• RBA
• interest rates
• Middle East
• NAB
• employment data
• crude oil
• market analysis

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Organizations: NAB

Places: Middle East, New Zealand, US

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