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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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Markets

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

Aussie dollar softer in late trade

Positive Chinese economic data fails to recover weakness sparked by the Reserve Bank.

News

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks to the media at the conclusion of the Australia 2014 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns. Pics Adam Head

Global recovery too weak: Lagarde

The IMF chief says risks are increasing to the durability of the global economic recovery.

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Business

George Watters has been a delivery driver for Dominos for 15 years, delivering over 20,000 pizzas to Cairns residents. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Domino’s ramps up delivery service

The pizza chain plans to hire 3,000 more staff to keep up with its 20-minute delivery pledge.

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Mining & Energy

BHP removed from credit watch

Standard and Poor’s has removed BHP from credit watch after the miner ended its progressive dividend policy.

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Business

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London stocks at 4 year lows

London stocks slumped towards four-year lows on Thursday amid a broad European sell-off.

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News

3/11/2015: Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh in Collins st Melbourne. David Geraghty / The Australian

Rio Tinto slumps to full-year loss

Miner ditches progressive dividend policy as plunging commodity prices continue to hurt.

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Mining & Energy

Rio Tinto slumps to full-year loss

Commodity price weakness sees Rio Tinto swing to full-year net loss and scrap its progressive dividend policy.

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News

National Australia Bank CEO Andrew Thorburn at the National Australia Bank scheme meeting on the demerger of Clydesdale Bank in Melbourne, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

Clydesdale lifts on London debut

NAB’s spin-off welcomed by the market, with shares 6.7 per cent higher at the close.

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Commentary

FILE - In this June 26, 2015 file photo, European Council President Donald Tusk, left, speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels. European Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday February 2, 2016 unveiled proposals that he hopes will keep Britain in the 28-nation European Union. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Britain weighs Brexit dilemma

The release of a settlement proposal represents progress, but it could still prove unpopular with British voters.

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Commentary

TOPSHOT - Migrants and refugees walk past a tree after crossing into Serbia via the Macedonian border near the village of Miratovac on January 28, 2016. More than a million people headed to Europe in search of new lives last year, most of them refugees fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in the continent's worst migration crisis since World War II. The onset of winter does not appear to have deterred the migrants. / AFP / ARMEND NIMANI

Border woes are another blow for Greece

The debilitating lack of consensus on border protection in the EU is exacerbating Greece’s hardship.

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