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Amber PlumDeputy Business Editor

Amber Plum has been Deputy Business Editor at The Australian since 2018, after joining the masthead in 2016. She was previously a European correspondent and deputy editor at Business Spectator.

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FILE- In this Monday, March 24, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to his chief of staff Sergei Ivanov during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Putin has fired his chief of staff Sergei Ivanov having said it's been done at Ivanov's request because he had been too long in the job, and he is also taken off the Security Council, Russia's top security body. (Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service FILE via AP)

Kremlin sacks key Putin ally

One of the Russian President’s closest allies has been stood down in a high-profile power reshuffle.

Technology

An attendant shows NTT Docomo Inc.'s Aquos Zeta smartphone manufactured by Sharp Corp., for a photograph at an unveiling in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile-phone carrier by subscribers, introduced 10 smartphone models today. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

China ticks Foxconn’s Sharp buy

The first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics producer has been given final approval.

News

CFA crews at scene of fire at a Marshall Pine Products . picture: Glenn Ferguson

CFA board backs Vic pay deal

A controversial wage deal has been agreed eight weeks after the former board’s sacking.

UPDATEDMarkets

Stocks close firmly higher

The local market has been boosted by energy and materials, despite lacklustre Chinese data.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

Budget2016 - stock images to be used for Budget 2016 stories. Australian money including 100, 50, 5, 10 and 20 dollar notes, in back pocket of a man's black charcoal jeans pocket. Vertical. Picture: istock

Investors punish earnings laggards

Investors have responded aggressively to this week’s corporate results, sending several stocks sharply lower.

Daniel Palmer

Technology

Fastest track to a hot tech job?

At New York’s Flatiron School, students get no degree but a rapid leg-up to the likes of Google and Kickstarter.

Josh Mitchell

Markets

A coastguard official monitors the shoreline with Transocean Winner drilling rig off the coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, after it ran aground in severe weather conditions, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2016. The oil rig, carrying 280 tonnes of diesel, broke free of its tug and ran aground on the remote Scottish island where it is being monitored by a counter-pollution team. (Andrew Milligan / PA via AP)

IEA flags lower oil demand

The agency has warned of a dimmer economic outlook, as “massive” stock overhang pressures prices.

Markets

Generic photo of one Australian dollar. cahh currency coin $1. Picture: istock

Dollar holds above US77c

The search for yield is continuing to support the Aussie, despite the block of China’s Ausgrid bid.

James Glynn

Markets

Stocks slip more than 0.5pc

The local market has been weighed by weaker oil prices and disappointment with Telstra’s results.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

An employee holds a two hundred and fifty gram gold bar in this arranged photograph at Solar Capital Gold Zrt. in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, March 10, 2016. Gold advanced to the highest level in a year after the European Central Bank indicated it wouldn't cut interest rates further, boosting the euro and making dollar-denominated bullion less expensive for investors. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

Gold demand spikes in June qtr

Gold demand rose 15 per cent in the three months to June, spurred by investment demand from the West.

Jasmine Horsey

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