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Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... region, the price of crude and the outlook for the global economy. Pure coincidence perhaps but Wall Street closes at 4PM New York time - the exact moment when the clock strikes midnight in Saudi Arabia and the dawn of 11 March. But before the first ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... at 4,791.3 points. The S&P/ASX200's intraday low of 4,697.1 was the index's lowest level since January 11 this year. NEW YORK - US stocks plunged Thursday on worries of higher oil prices and an economic slowdown, with the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes ...

NAB buys 35pc stake in AREA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... global real estate fund manager, increasing its exposure to property in North America, Europe and Asia. The purchase of New York-based fund AREA Property Partners gives the bank's asset management business nabInvest a slice of the recently distressed ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... Street bobbed up and down along the zero line last night, seemingly lost as to which way to go. At the end of the bell in New York, it decided just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. Can't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... cent, at 4,767.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index shed 39.3 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4,863.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks were flat on Wednesday following the chop and change of the oil market, as concerns about events in Libya and a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... cent, at 4,808.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index added 6.6 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 4,902.5 points. NEW YORK - Financial companies pushed stock indexes higher on Tuesday on signs that banks may soon raise their dividends. Bank of America ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... cent, at 4,797.9 points while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 62.7 points, or 1.26 per cent, to 4895.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks sank Monday as Libya veered toward civil war and unrest continued to roil across Arab countries, driving crude oil ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... cent, at 4,806.4 points while the broader All Ordinaries index added 4.5 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 4,902.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks soared on Thursday sparked by new data showing steady improvement in the jobs market, retail sales and the economy's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... per cent, to 4,803.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 22.1 points, or 0.45 per cent at 4898.3. NEW YORK - US stocks are closing slightly higher after a surprisingly strong report on hiring by private companies raised hopes that ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... is an abundance of that in America." He's not wrong there. And gauging from last night's Fedspeak, it shall remain so. New York Fed President William Dudley noted that while America's economy has "improved considerably... we are still very far away from ...