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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... results, and Westfield Group issues its 1st Quarter Review. Property company GPT Group, Australian Agricultural Company Ltd, and Oil Search Ltd hold annual general meetings. On Tuesday, the Australian share market closed lower, led by the major banks ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... $52.42. Resources stocks also reversed course to the downside after trading higher in opening trade on the back of a jump in oil and commodities prices in New York overnight. Market heavyweight BHP Billiton was eight cents, or 0.18 per cent, lower at ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... China and India's gluttonous appetite for commodities and the greenback's faltering glamour. That may be... for now. For like oil, a rising currency is the cure for a rising currency. They will continue rising until they choke demand. For instance, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... per cent in part because more people who resumed looking for work. The news on job growth helped lift the dollar, nudged up oil prices and reversed a four-day slump for stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 54.57 points, or 0.4 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... points at 4,747 points, with 28,475 contracts traded. Materials stocks remained the worst performers, due to sharp falls in oil, gold and other metal prices in overseas trade overnight. The falls were caused by a rise in the US dollar and disappointing ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... index, jobless claims and productivity in recent days. Oh no! There won't be anyone buying commodities no more! Sell gold, sell oil, sell copper, sell cocoa, sell coffee, sell soybeans, sell... sell... sell. Company profits will sink, sell... sell... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... Wednesday, the Australian share market slipped to a five-week low on a broad-based sell-off sparked by profit-taking in the oil and gas sector and the lack of good earnings news from banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 44.5 points, or 0.93 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Wednesday, following flat to lower performances by markets overseas overnight, and falls in the prices of precious metals and oil. At 0703 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down 29 points at 4,755. In economics news ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... change resolution did not pass, despite voting funds saying they support carbon disclosure. The vote was held at Australian oil and gas company Woodside's annual general meeting, a company that a number of super funds hold shares in and one that relies ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... all looking fairly strong, with index leader BHP Billiton getting a boost from record high gold and silver prices and the oil price hit a two and a half year high on Friday." Among the major banks, Westpac, ANZ and NAB are due to report their first half ...