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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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General Scenes Of Arrium Offices As Steelmaker Goes Into Voluntary Administration

Stocks’ worst day in a month

The local market’s mood has turned down sharply, with the banks sold off heavily.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

Stacks of Australian one dollar coins. Focus on front coin.

Dollar still near US76c

The local unit has edged back from morning highs but remained supported by a softer greenback.

Markets

Stocks weighed heavily by banks

Big bank stocks were down sharply at noon, putting the benchmark on track for heavy losses.

Markets

23/12/2015: Phil Cochineas, Managing Director of ABC Refinery picutred with gold bars at their Sydney refinery.The Australian / Renee Nowytarger

Gold price hits three-week high

The yellow metal has been bid higher amid uncertainty over Federal Reserve interest rates.

Katherine Dunn

Markets

Stocks end firmly in the red

The local sharemarket’s winning streak has skidded to an end, despite the Reserve Bank’s cut.

Daniel Palmer

Markets

Dollar slips on RBA cut

The local unit shed close to one third of a cent on the back of the Reserve Bank’s statement.

Technology

Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, stands for a portrait with a Tesla Roadster electric car outside the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Tesla Motors Inc., the electric car company that hasn't posted a profit, raised $226 million selling shares above its forecast price range in the first initial public offering of a U.S. automaker in a half century. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Elon Musk

Tesla buys SolarCity

The $US2.6bn buyout will combine Elon Musk’s electric-car and solar-energy companies into one entity.

ANNE STEELE

Technology

Gold Coast music company Guvera holds a meeting at Palazzo Versace, Main Beach. (L-R) Original founder of Guvera, Claes Loberg, with Head of Music Philip Quartararo and Chairman Darren Herft.

Two Guvera subsidiaries returned

The music streaming company’s creditors range from the ATO and APRA to sponsored sports groups.

David Swan and Ben Butler

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 rally ‘set to continue’

In the face of global economic risks to the downside, gold’s price rally is set to extend, says John Lipsky.

Markets

Stocks lift for sixth session

The local market has extended on July’s gains, to close at a one-year peak.

Daniel Palmer

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