And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 104.8 US cents this morning. It'll also buy you around 65 British pence and 125.81 New Zealand dollars.

 

 

 

Aston Martin is receiving a 230-million-dollar cash injection from the Italian private equity firm Equity Industrial. The investment will give the equity firm a 37.5 percent stake  in the business. The luxury carmaker will put them mainly towards the more than 750 million dollars it plans to spend on new models and technologies over the next five years. Aston Martin has been looking for fresh investment to allow it to compete with rivals such as Porsche and Ferrari.