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This photo taken on August 13, 2015 shows investors monitoring screens showing stock market movements at a brokerage house in Shanghai. Shanghai stocks were down 0.40 percent, or 15.01 points to 3,779.10, by the break on August 20, 2015, narrowing morning losses on expectations of more government support measures for equities following volatile trading the previous day, dealers said. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE

Stock market braces for chaos

THE stock market is bracing for heavy falls today after Wall Street had its worst day in 18 months, driven lower by another slump in Chinese shares.

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The nation you’ve never heard of

IT’S the fifth-biggest population in the world, and is immensely important for business, politics, travel and education, but you’ve never heard its name.

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Investors monitor screens showing stock market movements at a brokerage house in Shanghai on August 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE

China stocks plummet again

SHANGHAI shares dropped 3.12 per cent by the break on Wednesday, extending their largest daily loss in more than three weeks.

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(FILES) This July 14, 2014 file photo shows The Citigroup Center in midtown Manhattan. US securities regulators ordered two Citigroup affiliates August 17, 2015 to pay $180 million to settle charges that they defrauded investors by falsely claiming a pair of hedge funds were low-risk. Citigroup collected nearly $3 billion from 4,000 investors by claiming the ASTA/MAT fund and the Falcon fund were low-risk investments akin to investing in government bonds, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission. AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY/ FILES

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SECURITIES regulators have ordered two United States Citigroup affiliates to pay $244 million to settle charges that they defrauded investors.

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A teller counts yuan banknotes in a bank in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu province on August 11, 2015. China's central bank on August 11 devalued its yuan currency by nearly two percent against the US dollar, as authorities seek to push market reforms and bolster the world's second-largest economy. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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THE positive side of China’s currency devaluation has begun to shine through, with the Australian dollar slightly higher as a result.

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Supplied undated image obtained Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 of people dressed as zombies in a cinema in Sydney. A home-grown zombie movie, Me and My Mates Versus the Zombie, is being tipped to help resurrect an ailing Australian film industry by using social media to attract crowds. (AAP Image/Drew Lambert Communications) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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IF YOU thought the Australian film industry was dead, you probably haven’t seen the zombie flick that’s set to spark an on-demand revolution.

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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reacts during an emergency parliament session in Athens, Thursday, July 23, 2015. Greek lawmakers held a whirlwind debate into the early hours Thursday on further reforms demanded by international creditors in return for a third multi-billion-euro bailout, with attention focusing on government rebels who oppose the measures. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Bloodbath as Greece reopens stock market

NO ONE expected it to be pretty, but after a five-week shutdown, Greece’s money markets have reopened to unprecedented disaster.

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