shares of bhp trading just under 1% in australia today.stralia, employees have the right to ignore their bosses outside working hours thanks to a recent law which enshrines the right to disconnect. the legislation passed earlier this year protects workers who refused to monitor read or respond to contact from their employers outside of work hours. more than 20 countries including france have put in place similar laws. phil mercer reports. family fun beats work stress, any day of the week. kelly gale is starting a new position in marketing in sydney. she has made sure it will not be such a demanding environment as her previousjob. i don't know what it was but every called had to be answered, even if you are in the bathroom and every e—mail had to be answered within ten minutes, didn't matter when it was, what time of day or night or whether it was a weekend or holiday. what effect did that have on you? it was traumatic, actually to be honest. millions of australians can now break free from the pressures of after—hours calls and e—mails. new

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proceedings in a class action lawsuit against mining giant bhp have begun in london, over the collapsemariana dam in brazil back in 2015. the disaster to the release of toxic mining waste that killed 19 people and devastated local communities. lawyers representing the thousands of victims are seeking $a7 billion in damages. over to australia which passed a law earlier this year that gives employees the right to ignore their bosses outside working hours. called the right to disconnect, it's similar to legislation in about 20 other countries including france, phil mercer went to sydney to find out how its impact in the workplace. family fun beats work stress, any day of the week. kelly gale is starting a new position in marketing in sydney. she has made sure it will not be such a demanding environment as her previousjob. i don't know what it was but every called had to be answered, even if you are in the bathroom and every e—mail had to be answered within ten minutes, didn't matter when it was, what time of day or night or whether it was a weekend or holiday. what effect did that have on

so, too, bhp group. it's still early. anglo american going down 5.7%.hat does the rest of the day look like? it could get better. it could get worse. luxury players something in vain here. we have been following this the last few weeks because the demand is the stimulus put forward by chinese authorities may, perhaps, push in a little bit more stimulus whether the form of the stock market a little bit for the consumer at play. that's not happening with the likes of burberry getting hit at 6.4%. overall, another story comes to market with the chinese commerce ministry dumping measures on the brandy industry. this is a move by the eu to go ahead, of course, last week with tariffs of importis of evs. charlotte joins us with the story. a lot seems there is conversation to be had. charlotte. >> it looked like china might be trying to find the compromise. they launched this investigation in january with brandy and french cognac and they are selling cognac more expensive in china. it is quite difficult to think that. certainly, the investigation that they were

the majors here, rio tinto and b bhp, in positive territory. the others are lower in the session.ean luxury is in focus this hour. another key source of demand with the concerns of the health and strength of the chinese economy has been pulling this sector sharply lower today down 3.5%. lvmh down 2.66%. burberry also losing ground. as i mentioned, goldman hiked the forecast seeing the world's second largest economy growing 4.9% versus the 4.7% expected. the lender has raised its 2025 growth forecast to 4.7% from 4.3%. let's get more insight and reaction to this with janet mui. she is head of rbc. i want to get your take on what unfolded in china and what was announced on saturday. as i mentioned, investors here, perhaps, disappointed by lack of detail, but china market investors, on the other hand, encouraged by the willingness that we've seen from policymakers to do more. what did you make of it and what is the ultimate end goal here? >> good morning, dan. thanks for having me. i think these are steps in the right direction. i agree we have to be a bit more patient. i don't think

look at that selloff you've seen in a freeport, southern copper, bhp.ually there is some follow through in industrial because that's really one of the only levers they can pull. >> how are you thinking about china right now? >> to be honest, most of my clients, it seems like it's a trade. so i think the bar for it to be more than a trade is really, really high and clearly, that bar isn't being met with these announcements recently. if you look at the data recently, there was just a massive amount of money that went into china funds so i feel like people who wanted to make the trade made it and maybe that makes a bar even higher from here. >> look at the may high. i think it was 29.5 and had a significant selloff. so that huge run took us right through past resistance becomes support. i think it was last week, hashtag smooth to my left, when alibaba was trading about 119, probably paid a lot to do it. that was the right thing to do. you're going to get an opportunity to buy this stock 98 or so. i think you buy it again right there. >> the other side of t

we've seen the massive run in abba bah, for instance, the massive run in casinos >> i like bhp and rioat are paying great defensividends the china trade this week was fascinating. i sold actually 115 calls on baba in the middle of last week that closed out this week. i still own the stock. i feel like the volatility was something worth playing. i want to own alibaba long-term. and if i got called away, i'm sure i would have been a buyer i do think you have a dynamic where you're going to start to see people follow through. i mentioned about the casinos, 33, 35% move in wynn this is something i think has given the analysts a chance to look at those valuations that are 50% discounted to where they were pre-covid and say at some point we don't even need china to be booming. >>> meantime, a new op-ed in the financial times suggests the united states may have hit the peak of its obesity epidemic newly released data finds that since 2020 there has been a down trend in the percent of americans who are overweight, thanks to drugs that, quote, almost my magic, remove the requirement for human w

the home builders are cyclical, auto builders, commodities like dow are cyclical copper mines like bhp that's the definition of cyclical these companies are all hostages to the vicissitudes of the economy. when the economy heats up they earn a lot more money and are willing to pay more for those earnings and when the economy slows down or shifts into a recession mode they earn a's lot less money and investors pay less for their shares. i always say cyclicals are boom and bust names ah, secular growth company on the other hand is one where the earnings keep coming regardless of the economy's overall health. think anything you eat, drink, brush your teeth with or use as medication so you've got consumer staples like procter & gamble of course. food companies like general mills, drug stocks like pfizer or merck or eli lilly. these are the classic recessionproof names you want to buy when the economy slows down, investors flock to the companies that can generate safe consistent earnings unless the glp-1s drugs actually really take over the world. because you don't stop eating food or brush

there's bhp which is connected molecular early to ghb, there's other stuff, there's a rex and a which has caffeine like properties. so you do get you absolutely do get faster as high to some degree. and and yeah, it helps you i guess not panic and so get that antelope how would you describe these these stages. so generally for most people if you're going on a water only fast the first couple of days, maybe the first three days, you're a little uncomfortable or you're not in agony. and then you start getting your these ketone bodies. i'm sure we've all heard of ketosis and and that that's something that faster try and stimulate the and as the ketone bodies kick in you really get to this this sort of level where you're you're not feeling so so badly and i think probably around day five, day six, at least speaking for myself, i started to feel a little physically weak, but i was both i and my partner were doing operating normally and i don't think it was obvious that we were fasting, which is how we wanted it, although our adult children said we were space, you know, staring off into sta