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Market Index - Thursday Morning Wrap


ASX 200 futures are down 74 points, to 7,796, at 8:40am AEST.

                                                                                                          

It was a massive night for overseas news. NVIDIA's latest quarterly earnings and forecast both shattered the consensus estimate, sending its shares past the US$1,000 mark for the first time. It also said it would lift its quarterly dividend by - get this - 150% (!) and commence a 10-for-1 stock split. It was a moment captured like this on CNBC:


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But not to be outdone, BHP made a third offer for Anglo American - this time, valued at nearly $74 billion. Even more remarkably, Anglo American have given BHP just one week to Mike Henry's team to come up with a fourth offer.

What a time to be alive.

Let's dive in.


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