Finance news you need to know today

US AGENTS have obtained information about offshore transactions involving Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.

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

1. SYDNEY — The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street ended mostly flat with investors concerned a vote delay in President Donald Trump’s healthcare package does not augure well for his other reforms. At 0700 AEDT on Friday, the share price futures index was up five points, or 0.09 per cent, at 5,712.

2. SYDNEY — Meanwhile, the Australian dollar has underperformed and fallen against its US counterpart, and the major currencies. The local currency was trading at 76.27 US cents at 0700 AEDT on Friday, from 76.63 on Thursday.

3. WASHINGTON — US senators have been informed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that a vote on a Republican repeal and replacement of Obamacare might not be held in the House of Representatives before Monday.

4. NEW YORK — New documents from WikiLeaks point to an apparent CIA program to hack Apple’s iPhones and Mac computers using techniques that couldn’t be disabled by resetting devices to factory conditions.

5. WASHINGTON — US Treasury Department agents have obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned.