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Yahoo Finance morning wrap for Friday

<em>Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg via Getty</em>
Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg via Getty

Good morning.

Here’s what’s going on this Friday.

Australian shares are down at the open, with the heavyweight financial sector dragging and supermarkets Coles and Woolworths also losing ground.

The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 21.2 points, or 0.37 per cent, at 5,640.4 at 1015 AEDT on Friday, while the broader All Ordinaries was down 20.4 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 5,714.9.

Markets are sending a worrying signal about the Australian economy. Australia’s central bank says the next move in interest rates is a hike. Yet investors are starting to embrace the idea that policy makers will be forced to cut.

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Have a great weekend.

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