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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market has received a positive lead from offshore markets, after Wall Street closed higher and commodities prices ended firmer. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 41 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
Australian markets have received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. At 0744 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 16 points lower at 4,429. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
The Australian share market is set for a strong opening after Wall Street and European markets surged on encouraging corporate earnings reports in the US. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 69 points ...

Diageo funds deficits with whiskey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Wednesday following strong negative leads from offshore overnight. Wall Street's key indices slumped on Tuesday, precious and base metals and oil were down, except gold which rose slightly, and European ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The $152 billion New York State Pension Fund is suing British Petroleum over losses from the oil spill disaster. In a press statement, New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the trustee of the NY fund, said he was hiring law firm Cohen Milstein ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while indices were down in Europe and Asia. Precious metals traded higher, as did oil and copper. At 0759 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Dow Jones drops BP from indices

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Oil giant BP has been struck from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes due to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Dow Jones Indexes and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) dropped BP from the indices as part of its rules on extraordinary events. "The extent ...

UK pension lose $6bn on BP oil spill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
UK pension funds have a multi-billion dollar exposure to oil giant BP's share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The UK-based National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which represents more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
The Australian share market appears set for a flat start following its long weekend as a late fall on Wall Street overnight offset gains in Europe and Asia. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up five ...