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TAL appoints claims manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... sales, operations, claims (both personal injury and domestic lines), workers compensation, technology systems development, supply chain, injury management, legal and training. Coates said that Maini will be instrumental in helping develop programs to ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... oil's down 4.3% to US$63.04 per barrel, also a five-year low. Prices could slide even lower for on top of excess crude supply, the largest oil producer -- Saudi Arabia - is engaging in outright price discounting, and on top of this, Iraq - the second ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... 4,740.69. Oil-oriented equities suffered another down day as crude prices sank to a fresh five-year low on worries about a supply glut. Dow member Chevron fell 3.7 per cent, while Apache Corp slumped 6.9 per cent. Chinese trade data showed a surprising ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... hit for a second successive session while airlines climbed after OPEC's decision to maintain oil output levels despite a supply glut and plunging prices. Tokyo rallied 0.75 per cent to its best finish since July 2007 thanks to fresh yen weakness which ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... the cause of the recent price plunge - and found 41,800,000 results. The narratives were wide ranging: from the classic supply and demand (or in this case, oversupply and under demand) to conspiracy theories to game theory and prisoners' dilemma, with ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... next OPEC meet in June next year is anybody's guess. All things being equal and remaining as they are - i.e. US oil shale supply continues to increase and world growth continues to growl - it's easy to extrapolate further slide in crude oil prices. But ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after the OPEC oil cartel decided not to cut output despite a supply gut and falling crude prices. At 0825 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,397. Wall ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... I ranted about oil was when financial markets picked up the International Energy Agency's (IEA) prediction of increased supply and reduced demand for the commodity. That was on 15 October when Brent oil prices plummeted 22.3% to US$86.66 a barrel from ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... cent) to 2,017.81, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 8.16 (0.18 per cent) to 4,638.91. The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers index for October manufacturing rose to 59.0, with companies saying activity is picking up ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... this year, and rumoured to be eyeing corporate bonds for its next purchase. The problem with all these is... the tight supply. According to reports, there's not much for the ECB to buy in order to raise its balance sheet to its targeted a,-1 trillion ...