The Australian sharemarket shed nearly $70bn in the first hour of trade on Wednesday morning after huge losses on Wall Street overnight.
The benchmark ASX 200 opened 0.02 per cent lower on Wednesday… [read more]
ASX plunges $66 billion in bloodbath – news.com.au

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