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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
The Australian stock market was more than half a per cent higher at noon as speculation re-emerged that Shell could sell its stake in Woodside to BHP. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 28.4 points higher, or 0.59 per cent, at 4,866.3 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... works. "The big news is Woodside. Shares are up three per cent on rumours that BHP is looking at them or looking at buying Shell's stake." By 1230 AEDT, shares in Woodside were up $1.39, or 3.05 per cent, at $46.95. BHP Billiton investors were not impressed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... that their shares no longer carry the right to their most recently declared dividend. The likes of GlaxoSmithKline, BP, Shell and Unilever all dropped after losing their payout attractions. Later in the day traders turned their attention to crucial testimony ...

APRA releases 2010 fund level returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... five-year and seven-year superannuation industry assessment while other funds moved around the leader board. Meanwhile, Shell Australia emerged during the two-year space between assessments from June 2008 to June 2010, not appearing in 2008 but being ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
"Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland.... Later on, we'll conspire, As we dream by the fire To face unafraid, The plans that we've made, Walking ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
"It's always darkest before dawn." This axiom came to mind as I watched Wall Street recouped its previous day's losses. Everything that could go wrong appeared to have gone wrong yesterday. There was shelling in the Korea's. Ireland's acceptance of ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... stocks falling in the S&P/ASX50, there was one decline. RBS Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the sale of Shell's holding in Woodside Petroleum was the major factor in a softer market on Tuesday. Royal Dutch Shell has sold around a 10 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... chief executive Peter Freyberg speaks at a business lunch in Sydney, while Medusa Mining Ltd releases full year results. And Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd executive vice president Ann Pickard speaks at a breakfast in Perth. On Monday, the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... director of the Wesfarmers-owned Coles, Ian McLeod, are listed as speakers at a retail conference in Sydney. In Canberra, Shell chairman Russell Caplan is to participate in lunch forum organised by Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) ...