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US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... multiplying..." (Grease). Europe and the euro. Fat finger. German ban on naked shorts. Spanish bank bailout. Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Tighter US financial regulation. And coming to a theatre near you...renewed tension in the Korean Peninsula and rising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... problems also weighed on the market. The Nikkei's slide was part of a broad sell-off of risk assets including other Asian shares, oil and higher yielding currencies. It was triggered in part by the Bank of Spain's take over of a small savings bank, and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... weekend trading, after Wall Street finished firmer and the benchmark copper futures contract closed higher. Gold, silver and oil prices were weaker, however. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 58 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... basket of six currencies, rose 0.1 per cent. Energy stocks, which make up about 10 per cent of the S&P 500 index, dropped after oil fell. Shares of consumer staples companies, which are seen as safer bets in weak economies, rose. The Dow rose 5.67 points ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... worth more than $1.8 billion and retain a 55 per cent partnership interest. The assets include more than 230,000 net acres of oil sands leases and the current production of roughly 2,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day of bitumen and associated gas. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... assistant governor (economic) Philip Lowe addresses the Colonial First State Investment Forum. In company news, AMP Ltd and Roc Oil Company will hold their annual general meetings. Optus, part of the SingTel Group, will release its fourth quarter financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... in the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton fell 59 cents to $38.00, and rival Rio Tinto sagged 51 cents to $66.55. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum weakened $1.04 to $44.20, and Santos eased 22 cents to $12.64. Among the major banks, Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received a positive lead from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing higher and oil and gold prices firmer. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 20 points higher at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... market closed moderately higher, with a market-pleasing profit from Macquarie Group boosting the financial sector and a higher oil price underpinning resource stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 21.8 points, or 0.46 per cent, at 4,807.4 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... Taylor said. "The market liked it. "The finance sector is putting in the most points to the index." Mr Taylor said higher oil prices had helped boost the resources sector, and the likelihood that Greece would accept an austerity package in return for ...