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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket was marginally in the red at noon after a broad-based sell-off, although a higher oil price overnight drove gains in the energy sector and investors flocked to healthcare stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 14.9 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... Australian sharemarket has received a mixed lead from Wall Street, with major indices lower, but precious and base metals, and oil, higher. At 0829 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 12 points higher at 4,530. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... Australian sharemarket has received generally positive leads from Wall Street, with most major indices higher, along with oil and precious metals, while copper was lower. At 0815 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Fidelity signs exclusive research deals

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... but what the firm does differently is to negotiate exclusive deals with the research provider. For example, Fidelity uses an oil & specialist firm in Europe to supply European-centric information on the sector. "All their clients are corporate clients ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... so nothing major there," Burrell Stockbroking adviser Daniel Manley said. "The resources stocks are sort of flat to down, oil stocks are fairly flat as well so overall it's a very dull market at the moment and it's probably going to stay this way unless ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... sector lending and US consumer confidence. In London, the stock market was helped by better-than-expected results from British oil giant BP, which reported that third-quarter net profit sank 34 per cent. Shares in BP ended the day 4.81 per cent higher. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... BHP Billiton had declined 63 cents, or 1.59 per cent, to $39.10 and Rio Tinto fell $1.10, or 1.64 per cent, to $65.81. Local oil stocks lost ground, with Oil Search four cents lower at $6.06, Santos down 14 cents at $15.30 and Woodside 79 cents, or 1.55 ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... an all-time record high of 14,164.53 points on 9 October 2007. This time it was different. Surplus savings from Asian and oil-producing Middle Eastern countries are supporting keeping interest rates down and low for spendthrift Americans. But as we now ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... Tinto was up 70 cents, or 1.05 per cent, at $67.30. Fortescue Metals had risen five cents, or 1.20 per cent, at $4.03. Crude oil for December delivery rose $US2.25 to settle at $US81.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest level ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... too excited. "Energy stocks have pretty underwhelming moves - half to one per cent," he said. The price of light sweet crude oil for November delivery closed 52 US cents lower at $US79.09 a barrel. Oil Search was up eight cents, or 1.28 per cent, at ...