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

Dollar falters as risks eyed

The local unit has continued to lose ground as Brexit worries spread through global markets.

Markets

Stocks dip for second day

The local bourse has been weighed by banks and miners, despite paring losses in afternoon trade.

Daniel Palmer

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20/06/2016: Ian Morrice; Metcash CEO, in Sydney after announcing profit results today. Pic by James Croucher

Metcash bows on takeover

The retailer hopes fresh undertakings will win an ACCC tick for its Home Timber & Hardware bid.

Eli Greenblat

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, the American flag flies above the Wall Street entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are opening moderately higher on Wall Street on Thursday, June 30, 2016, as traders feel less anxious about Britain's vote a week earlier to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

US bond yields dip to record lows

Global investors continue to pile into safe havens, as expectations grow for more central banker stimulus.

Christopher Whittall

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A woman uses her phone as she walks past a foreign exchange outlet in Hong Kong on June 28, 2016. Hong Kong stocks ended slightly lower on June 28, unable to match an Asian rebound from last week's Brexit-fuelled selloff because of its exposure to Europe-linked companies. / AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE

China bucks Asian stocks slump

Shanghai stocks have leapt above the 3000-point level for the first time since April, on hopes for government reforms.

Dominique Fong

Markets

Dollar inches back in late trade

The local unit has retreated from its overnight gain as traders digested the RBA’s statement.

James Glynn

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Stocks close 1pc lower

Banks and retailers weighed heavily on the market as political and economic uncertainties linger.

Daniel Palmer

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More companies going bust

Queensland and WA are leading the nation for insolvencies amid mining and property sector consolidation.

Markets

Banks weigh on local stocks

The local sharemarket was close to 1pc lower at noon as the financial sector slumped.

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Delia Breen, who works in a money exchange office at the border between Newry in Northern ireland and Dundalk in The Republic of Ireland poses with handfuls of Sterling notes and Euro notes, on June 7, 2016. The border that divides the island of Ireland is now invisible, with just a few crumbling former customs buildings serving as reminders of a bygone era of a hard frontier between north and south. All of this could be about to change. In the event of a Brexit on June 23, these 500 kilometres (311 miles) would become the sole land border between the United Kingdom and the European Union and there are genuine concerns that this will mean the reintroduction of customs barriers that were abolished on January 1, 1993 - and even immigration controls for the first time. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL FAITH

Europe shares weighed by Italy

Steep falls among Italian banks have pushed the pan-European index into the red.

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