ASX 200 falls; Singtel denies causing Optus outage; Qantas, AMP down; GrainCorp gains
AUD drops as jobs growth exceeds estimates. Qantas guilty of criminal charge. AMP downgrades margin expectations. SQM's Azure bid 'dead in the water': MinRes boss. Billionaire Michael Hintze sells CQS.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Thursday, November 16. The ASX 200 index closes 0.7 per cent lower at 7058.40 points, led by energy losses. Wall St closed higher overnight.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US64.70c, falling after the jobs data.
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