A shutdown of US Government spending was averted at the last minute. US inflation data was benign ahead of key non-farm-payrolls data on Friday.

In our bonus deep-dive interview, ANZ’s Pacific Economist Kishti Sen looks at how the Pacific’s $1.6 billion infrastructure deficit could be solved.

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