Iran oil shock begins, AI job hit snowballs & the bravest float on the ASX
3/13/202636 min
This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at the oil shock that’s spreading through the real economy and financial markets, they examine the AI job losses at the original Aussie tech icon and take you inside the sharemarket float of an Aussie company that’s helped change the retail game.
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First 90 secondsJames Thomson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] The Australian Financial Review. [upbeat music] Hello, I'm James Thompson, senior Chanticleer columnist at the AFR. Welcome to our weekly news breakdown of all things business, finance, and markets. [upbeat music] With me today, as always, it's my Chanticleer colleague, he's cooler than an oil trader in the middle of a market meltdown, it's Anthony McDonald. How are you, Anthony?
Anthony Macdonald· Host0:29
Glad I'm not a truck driver, James. Diesel at 2.30 a liter, must hurt.
James Thomson· Host0:33
Absolutely. [upbeat music] Well, this week we look at the oil shock that's spreading through the real economy and financial markets. We examine the AI job losses at the original Aussie tech icon, Atlassian, and take you inside the share market float of an Aussie company that's helped change the game in retail. [upbeat music] Anthony, before we get to that heavy stuff, I wanna start there. Amid all the chaos on markets, we've actually got a company that's gonna be brave enough to try and list on the ASX, and it's the mattress in a box company Koala. Now, the whole mattress in a box thing is fascinating to me, Anthony. I'm old enough to remember when, like, the idea of selling any sort of furniture purely online was just ridiculous, but companies like Koala and Sleeping Duck, and if you go online you'll find a million of these companies, have figured out a way to sell mattresses literally in boxes.