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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... government would need to tighten monetary policy further. Wall Street closed marginally higher, while precious metals and oil prices settled firmer. The big miners were lower. BHP Billiton was down 46 cents at $47.55, while Rio Tinto had backpedalled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices flat to higher, and precious metals and oil also rising. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points higher at 4,896 points. ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... really strange about last night's financial market action on Wall Street. The US stock market is up a little overnight because oil prices rebounded. Strange isn't it? There is now a positive correlation between equity market prices and oil. Most other ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices more buoyant and both gold and oil reversing recent losses. At 0734 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was nine points lower at 4,904 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... per cent on a $US3.67 drop in the price of New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, to $US106.25. Oil Search fell 21 cents, or 2.82 per cent, to $7.24, Santos lost 30 cents, or 1.91 per cent to $15.44 and Woodside Petroleum declined ...

BOQ launches online trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... brokers, which it sees a as a "sweet spot with retail investors looking to overseas markets and products such as gold and oil and access to FX." CMC is also planning to launch a new generation of platform and service products soon.

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... ultimately takes the grin off Wall Street's face? According to theage.com.au, " US stocks dropped on Tuesday on worries falling oil prices could set off a reversal in the high-flying energy sector..." It even quoted a certain Mr. Robert Van Batenburg ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... the previous quarter. Alcoa was joined in the red by fellow Dow heavyweight Chevron, which lost 3.4 per cent on news that oil prices fell nearly four dollars for the main US contract, on suggestions that demand may soften. Stocks traded at a loss throughout ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... heavy rain hit operations. Global miner BHP Billiton was off 81 cents at $48.74, and Rio Tinto had reversed $1.26 to $87.04. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum eased $1.13 to $47.03, and Santos retreated 74 cents to $15.75. Toll road operator Transurban ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Ronald Reagan, said the US economic recovery faced resistance once the fiscal stimulus of QEII was wound back. He said rising oil prices had a direct impact on growth rates, with each US$30 per barrel rise taking up to three-quarters of a percent off ...