Yahoo Finance Global markets plunge, Australia set to follow
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Here’s everything you need to know in finance today.
The ASX is expected to plunge at open today, after US shares tanked overnight.
Yesterday, Australian stocks experienced their worst loss in history, with the S&P/ASX200 finishing down a whopping 9.7 per cent, eclipsing their 8.3 per cent drop back on October 10, 2008.
The Aussie dollar was buying 61.24 US cents at 7am AEDT on Tuesday, up from Monday's 60.96 US cents, which was its lowest level against its US counterpart since 2003.
Wall Street dove at open, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 10.03 per cent at open.
US companies lost more than US$2 trillion in value in the first few minutes of trading, with Apple, Amazon and Microsoft losing a total of US$300 billion.
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