ANZ posts $7.3 billion profit as Wall Street AI stocks rally
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ANZ has posted a $7.27 billion statutory full-year profit, a 23 per cent jump, with its preferred cash earnings measure beating consensus analyst forecasts. On Wall Street, renewed buying of AI-related stocks helped lift the Nasdaq by 1.1 per cent and the S&P 500 by 0.3 per cent on Friday.