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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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Uber legal in Qld from September

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a date for “sweeping reforms” to create a level playing field.

Sarah Elks

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ESCAPE: TOKYO, JAPAN .. Claire Sutherland story .. Shibuya crossing at night. Blurred Japanese people cross the road at twilight with many advertising hoardings illuminated all around. Modern Tokyo, Japan. Picture: iStock

Packer’s Japan dream alive

Tokyo’s new governor has signalled readiness to pave the way for legalisation of a casino resort in the city.

Sarah-Jane Tasker

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 rebounds as USD softens

The yellow metal has been encouraged by a weaker greenback after disappointing US data.

Jasmine Horsey

Markets

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

Dollar spikes past US77c

The local unit has continued to surge following Glenn Stevens’ speech, amid a stronger iron ore price.

James Glynn

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Stocks halt winning run

The local market has closed in the red, as investors sold off Commonwealth Bank.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

FILE - In this May 7, 2012 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Haiyang Shiyou oil rig, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. Two state-owned companies, China General Nuclear Power Group and China National Nuclear Corp., have announced plans to develop floating nuclear reactors for use by oil rigs or island communities. If they succeed, the achievement would raise concern the reactors might be sent into harmâ€™s way to support oil exploration in the South China Sea, where Beijing faces conflicting territorial claims by neighbors including Vietnam and the Philippines. (Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua News Agency via AP, File) NO SALES

Oil prices eases on uncertainty

Crude prices have retreated from early sharp gains as uncertainty around OPEC action comes to the fore.

Sarah McFarlane and Jenny W. Hsu

Markets

Asian stocks lift on oil, China

A surge in US oil prices and upbeat data from China has spurred a broad lift in Asian stockmarkets.

Markets

Stocks close in the black

The local market has notched up a fourth consecutive gain, despite a mixed response to earnings reports.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

Steel is loaded onto a truck in China in March. China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange says it will continue strengthening market oversight. PHOTO: BILL SAVADOVE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

Chinese traders roil commodities

Until recently, metal prices were essentially set in London. Now Chinese hedge funds have great sway.

Wei Gu

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JB Hi-Fi, Brisbane city store. Pic Peter Wallis

Deutsche tips ‘buoyant’ retail to top forecast

The retail sector could top earnings expectations, with Deutsche Bank labelling conditions “buoyant”.

Daniel Palmer

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