# The Strait of Good Hope Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nab-morning-call-427359/the-strait-of-good-hope Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nab-morning-call-427359/the-strait-of-good-hope.md Podcast: [NAB Morning Call](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nab-morning-call-427359) Published: 2026-08-25T20:29:52+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/morningcall/episodes/the-strait-of-good-hope Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/631a89913c2be9001415dc41/e/6a8dfb403e4ed0e7c2365a3e/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nab-morning-call-427359/episodes/the-strait-of-good-hope Duration seconds: 1020 ## Resource Wednesday 26th August 2026 NAB Markets Research Disclaimer   Financial Services Guide | Information on our services - NAB Oil prices fell sharply overnight, driving front-end bond yields lower and boosting shares. Phil asks NAB’s Gavin Friend what’s changed? There are reports that more oil is being shipped from Iraq, possibly with support being offered Iran, but the Achille’s heal of Operation Economic Rescue is how can you go hard on Iran’s trading partners without upsetting China and kicking off another trade war. The trade war with Canada meanwhile continues to ratchet up, whilst economic data from the US was largely bad, including a very disappointing consumer sentiment survey which suggests the future is less bright. Today the monthly CPI read is the key data point locally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nab-morning-call-427359/episodes/the-strait-of-good-hope/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/nab-morning-call-427359/the-strait-of-good-hope.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.