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Commonwealth Bank may soon start assessing whether to sell down its stake in Swedish buy now, pay later firm Klarna, a move some analysts estimate could release up to $1.8bn in capital for the banking giant. 

Meanwhile, Australia is at risk of coming out second-best to Donald Trump’s America First policy, with fallout from a blanket tariff imposition having the potential to deliver a bigger-than-expected hit to the local economy, writes Eric Johnston.

And Resolute Mining appears to have run the gauntlet of sending its CEO Terry Holohan to the troubled West African nation of Mali despite a previous security incident involving executives. The company now faces giving up a big piece of its Syama gold mine on top of paying out almost $250m to secure the release of its boss and two other employees.