Finance news you need to know today

PRODUCTION company Lionsgate has signed a deal with YouTube star Grace Helbig to develop films and TV series.

HERE are nine things making news in business and finance today.

1. SYDNEY — The Australian dollar is virtually unchanged against its US counterpart, but has fallen against the euro and the yen. At 0635 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 75.89 US cents, hardly changed from 75.90 cents on Friday.

2. SYDNEY — The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall declined, as news the FBI will review more emails related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email use spurred a sharp drop. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the share price index was down three points at 5,250.

3. BRUSSELS — The European Union and Canada have signed a free-trade agreement that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the coming years to enter fully into force.

4. LONDON — Annoyance caused by living next to a noisy wind farm can lead some people to become stressed and lose sleep, a UK government review has found.

5. BEIJING — A senior US official has urged China to work with the US to close a loophole on North Korean coal imports that Washington believes has been “critical” to propping up the isolated country’s finances.

6. LOS ANGELES — One of Vine’s co-founders has taken the wraps off a new project just hours after Twitter announced that it was going to shut down Vine.

7. LOS ANGELES — Lionsgate has signed an overall deal with YouTube star Grace Helbig to develop both films and TV series.

8. NEW YORK — Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has unveiled new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his electric car and battery maker with solar installer SolarCity Corp.

9. LA PAZ — Two Bolivian university students have created a chip for microscopes that automatically detects tuberculosis in sputum samples, a procedure that in Bolivia and other developing countries is normally done with not always accurate bacilloscopy.