6 Aug 2024

Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 6 August 2024

From Midday Report, 1:45 pm on 6 August 2024

On today's episode, global financial markets are in turmoil as recession fears shook global markets and drove investors out of risky assets overnight, Woolworths supermarket workers have voted to take strike action, after bargaining failed to secure them a living wage and improvements to staffing issues, the New Zealand Embassy in Jakarta is seeking further information on reports a helicopter pilot from New Zealand has been killed in Indonesia's Papua province, and Aotearoa had an excellent showing overnight, winning gold in the Kayak cross and silver in the women's sprint cycling team.