Company Results – Ansell; James Hardie; Seven West Media; CSL

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending Indicator, December

Valentine’s Day

International Book Giving Day

Library Lovers Day

Birthdays for Michael Bloomberg (1942), Simon Pegg (1970), Cadel Evans (1977), and Freddie Highmore (1992)

Anniversary of:
• the death of Captain James Cook (1779)
• the release of the original Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi (1931)
• the patenting of the first microchip (called “micro on a chip”) by Texas Instruments (1978)
• the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which prompted widespread protests against gun violence in the US (2018)