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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... cents to $33.48, as it said production has commenced from the 100,000 barrels per day Shenzi oil project in the Gulf of Mexico. Rio Tinto was down 58 cents to $53.35. "The finance sector's a bit mixed too," Mr Russell said. "I think they're following ...

Mexican super funds shut doors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
Pension funds in Mexico are snubbing international investments this year as they invest all of their fund inflows into the local market to boost the country's economy. According to Asociacion Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos, an organisation that ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... South America as regions that provide the "most attractive" for a combination of qualitative and quantitative reasons. Mexico and Brazil topped the list as the two most attractive countries for investment opportunities.

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... these, the Fed announced a US$30 billion lending facility to the central banks of South Korea and Singapore and Brazil and Mexico. Wait there's more. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also extended a helping hand, announcing its plans to lend money ...

Oil on slippery slope?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... on reports of lower inventories and the threat of further disruptions to supply as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few months ago, just a hint of a lower-than-expected fall in crude oil inventories or an approaching hurricane sent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... disappointing earnings report from computer giant Dell weighed on the markets and Hurricane Gustav churned towards the Gulf of Mexico. Low volume may have intensified the losses with trade thin ahead of a three-day Labor Day holiday in the United States ...

More worries for US financials

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... below US$113 a barrel last night following reports that Tropical Storm Fay will miss large oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The beginning of a Russian pullout from Georgia and comments by the Turkish energy minister that a key pipeline could resume ...

Norway revises pension investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... be broadened to include "second tier" emerging countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, India, Morocco, Russia and Mexico. The portfolio's allocation to emerging markets will be boosted to 10 per cent, a five per cent increase in the fund's previous ...

US fund giant MFS lands down under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... expands MFS' integrated global sector research coverage, which includes offices in Boston, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Mexico City. Ex-Merrill Lynch Australia head of institutional sales, Simon Gresham, joins MFS as a research analyst and will lead ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... $25.41, and Commonwealth Bank dropping 81 cents, or 1.83 per cent, to $43.39. BHP said its Neptune facility in the Gulf of Mexico was undergoing alterations to reinforce structural components in the hull's pontoons. BHP advanced 23 cents, or 0.52 per ...