US and European markets ‘drift lower' following trading session

CommSec's Tom Piotrowski claims US and European markets 'drifted lower' following their recent trading sessions.
'We saw US and European markets drift lower. There wasn't much conviction one way or the other as far as buyers or sellers were concerned,' he told Sky News Australia.
'On Wall Street, we had losses of about a quarter of a per cent for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq; the Dow was down by about a half of one per cent.'

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Joe Biden says he's 'feeling good' in first remarks after cancer diagnosis announced

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Joe Biden says he's 'feeling good' in first remarks after cancer diagnosis announced

Former US president Joe Biden says he is "feeling good" and his "prognosis is good" in his first public comments since his prostate cancer diagnosis. Speaking to press after he gave a speech at the Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Delaware, on Friday local time, Mr Biden said everyone was optimistic about his recovery. "I'm feeling good." Last week Biden's office said the former president had been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. He was diagnosed after experiencing urinary symptoms, and he and his family are reviewing treatment options with doctors, according to the statement. The former president said he was already undergoing treatment for cancer, which entailed taking a pill. "It's all a matter of taking one particular pill for the next six weeks and then another one," he said. "It's not in any organ, my bones are strong, so I'm feeling good." Mr Biden spoke at an annual gathering marking Memorial Day at Veterans Memorial Park in his home state of Delaware, not far from his home in Wilmington. The event coincided with the 10th anniversary of his son Beau's death. It also comes amid renewed questions about Biden's mental and physical health after the recent publication of a book about his fitness for office. He dropped his re-election bid in July 2024 after a disastrous debate against Donald Trump, after which those in his party questioned whether he could continue as the party's nominee. Questions about his decline and how the White House staff reacted to it are at the centre of a recent book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, which has renewed the debate. Asked on Friday if he had a response to recent questions about his mental and physical health, he smiled and appeared to get his words mixed up. "You can see I'm mentally incompetent and I can walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them," he said. In response to Democrats who question whether he should have initially run for re-election at all, he said: "Why didn't they run against me then? Because I'd have beaten them." AP