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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Metals fell two cents at $2.56. The energy stocks were the weakest performers, after the West Texas and Brent North Sea oil prices dived after hitting 2015 highs. Oil and gas explorer Woodside fell 46 cents, or 1.3 per cent, to $34.60, Santos fell 21 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher overnight as oil prices cooled and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba soared on strong sales. Locally on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... $US1.13. HONG KONG - Asian stocks have lost ground as China's market declined and US markets fell on worries about surging oil prices. South Korean shares lost 1.3 per cent or 27.65 points to end at 2,104.58, and Hong Kong ended down 114.63 points or ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... share price index futures contract was down 50 points at 5,754. US stocks tumbled overnight on worries about higher oil prices and tensions over the slow progress in the Greek debt negotiations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.79 per cent ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... complacent." Douglass described the current market environment as "anything but normal" and referred to the fall in oil prices, the appreciation of the US dollar, falling Chinese growth and poor economic data in the US in recent months. All of these ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... monetary policies to diverge and so far this year most central bank action has been on the easing side. He said lower oil prices have also created both risks and opportunities within emerging markets. As of December last year BlackRock had about $1.4 ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the fall in oil prices because they are both importers of commodities. But he said that, overall, Standard Life's Investment outlook for the region ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... you'd expect from a strong currency). The weather is certainly transitory - it's seasonal (yeah, yeah bad joke) - crude oil prices could be (and they're starting to recover or bottom at best) but with the divergence in expectations between Fed policy ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... US$59.88 per tonne from US$57.81 the previous day and a low of US$47.08 in early April - a 27.2% jump. So too have oil prices. While lower overnight, at US$64.64 per barrel, Brent oil's still up 36.9% from the January low of US$47.22. WTI oil is up 31.2% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... 2,159.80. However, Sydney rallied 1.51 per cent, or 88.53 points, to 5,933.3 as energy firms were helped by higher oil prices. And Hong Kong jumped 233.28 points to 28,060.98 - the first time it has ended above 20,000 since December 2007 - boosted by ...