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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... meeting that will update the Fed's plan to hike interest rates in the coming months. Petroleum stocks dropped on lower oil prices. Dow members Chevron and ExxonMobil fell by 1.2 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively, while offshore driller Transocean ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
Sovereign wealth funds in North America will suffer the biggest impacts of the sharp drop in oil prices, rather than those in oil-producing emerging markets. Invesco's Global Sovereign Asset Management Study shows that the majority (80%) of North American ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... American consumers are gaining confidence after a sluggish first quarter. However there were falls in gold, copper and oil prices. Locally on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance figures. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... revenue, a key industry benchmark, citing lower-than-expected US business class sales. Oil-services stocks surged as US oil prices finished above $61 a barrel, the highest level all year. Halliburton rose 1.5 per cent, Cameron International added 3.4 ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... had been overweight in pipeline companies, but that it has now changed its position to neutral, following the fall in oil prices. "What we're seeing now is that the [pipeline companies'] stocks have underperformed and the sector is starting to look more ...

Miners weigh on share market

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said market heavyweights BHP and Rio were lower because iron ore and oil prices were soft overnight. "BHP and Rio are both down more than two per cent - that's what's caused the market to go down," Heffernan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... $US1.03 per share, a penny shy of analyst expectations. Many petroleum-linked stocks tumbled following a big retreat in oil prices, including Anadarko Petroleum (-1.7 per cent), Halliburton (-3.5 per cent) and Transocean (-5.9 per cent). Dow member JPMorgan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... shed 1.59 per cent, or 69.62 points, to 4,308.69. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket has advanced, as cheaper oil prices benefited some leading stocks. The NZX 50 Index rose 21.972 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5760.376 on Friday.

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... by energy and retail stocks. "The energy sector is certainly the stand-out early in the session on some gains in the oil prices overnight," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said Woodside Petroleum gained 36 cents to $34.87, Santos was up 19 cents ...