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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... lower at noon as surging gold and copper prices helped mining stocks but energy companies slid on expectations that Saudi Arabia would boost oil production. A mixed performance on Wall St provided little direction to local investors. At 1200 AEST, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... $43.76, while its takeover target Rio Tinto rose $1.62, or 1.2 per cent, to $136.12. Oil prices fell on a report that Saudi Arabia may increase production to prevent the price of crude surging higher than record peaks near $US140 a barrel. At 1212 AEST ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... Regardless of the reason for excessively high world oil prices, the political reaction is taking on its own momentum. Saudi Arabia, the world's second largest producer of oil behind Russia, has announced it is convening a world oil summit so buyers and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... a bullish price forecast from investment bank Goldman Sachs drowned out an offer of more supply from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia.

Move over BRICs, Middle East is coming

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... economies and opening their markets to foreign investors. "If it was completely opened up to foreign investment, Saudi Arabia would be one of the largest emerging markets in the world, so the potential is massive," he said.

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... capital as they do oil, tying their economies to that of the west and acting as a brake on ever higher fuel prices. Saudi Arabia produces about one-third of the world's oil but because their economy is heavily reliant on just a single commodity the Saudi ...

Resources boom gone in three years: Putnam

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... in fact, in most cases took out a lot of capacity," he said. However, "In the last year I've been to China and to Saudi Arabia and the UAE and India and so on, and & almost coincidentally, so many of these large projects [such as Saudi Arabia building ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... Exxon Mobil Corp helped lead the Standard & Poor's 500 index higher as oil prices rose nearly 2 per cent on news Saudi Arabia will keep OPEC supply limits in place through July. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.57 of a point to end at 13,424.96. ...

DSTi scoops major software deal

Funds management software DST International (DSTi) has won a major contract after one of Saudi Arabia's largest banks, Riyad Bank, signed up for their integrated software solutions. The group said that Riyad Bank will be rolling out DSTi's end-to-end ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as firmer base and precious metal prices create positive sentiment for a market at the tail end of its earnings season. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index was 14 points ...