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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar has risen a third of a US cent, as the market digests mixed local employment figures. At 1200 AEDT, the local unit was trading at 101.05 US cents, up from Wednesday's local close of 100.71 US cents. Since 0700 AEDT, the Australian ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Wall 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. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... were no major US economic releases on the calendar to lure interest away from the intensifying unrest in the oil-producing Arab world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.29 points (0.01 per cent) to finish at 12,213.09. The broad-market S&P 500 ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Wall Street rebounds as oil pressure dips. This is the overall theme that you'll read, hear and watch on financial services this day. It's the mirror image of the previous day's "Wall Street dips as oil pressure bounds" theme, or days when The Street ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... 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 above $106 a barrel in New York. "Oil continues to call the shots for the equity market and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... East and North Africa, which kept oil near two-year highs. Concerns about the conflict in Libya and uprisings across the Arab world also sent traders into safer investments, with gold hitting a new record and the Swiss franc sitting near fresh highs ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
The Australian sharemarket opened slightly lower on Friday as uncertainty over the impact of Libya's turmoil remains a concern to investors. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.7 points, or 0.12 per cent, at 4,803.6, while the broader ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Christchurch continues to dig through the rubble left by the tremor that hit the region three days ago in the hope of rescuing all those still trapped underneath. While on the other part of the globe, Libyan butcher Qaddafi continues to turn his country ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...