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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  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... accordingly. Oil prices fell sharply after the stock markets closed in Europe but gave a solid boost to sentiment on Wall Street. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed flat at 5,974.76 points as did Frankfurt, with the DAX at 7,161.93 ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... stairs, Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you." - Stealers Wheel Wall Street found some things ain't right last night. The S&P ended 0.8 per cent down, the Dow 0.7 per cent weaker and the Nasdaq dropped ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... per cent. Crude oil prices touched their highest levels since September 2009 during US trading over the weekend, and Wall Street closed lower.

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... 2009. But the positive sentiment was offset by the ongoing conflict in Libya, rising oil prices and a weak finish on Wall Street. Crude oil prices gained $US2.51 on Friday to settle at $US104.42 a barrel, having touched its highest level since September ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... dropped from the top 20 stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the latest rebalance of indices. On Wall Street on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index climbed 191.40 points, or 1.59 per cent, to 12,258.20 points as new ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with key indices on Wall Street and in Europe clearly higher. Oil and precious metals fell, as investors turned away from their search for safe havens. On the ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday." - Diana Ross Yesterday Wall Street dropped big time "on concern rising energy costs will threaten the economic recovery." This was Bloomberg's - and most other financial market commentators' -- interpretation ...