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Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
Record high oil prices is fuelling the Middle East to export nearly as much capital as they do oil, tying their economies to that of the west and acting as a brake on ever higher fuel prices. Saudi Arabia produces about one-third of the world's oil ...

Resources boom gone in three years: Putnam

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
New transport and resources infrastructure arriving in the next three to four years could lead to the end of the current global resources boom, according to Shigeki Makino, Putnam Investments chief investment officer of global core equities. He said ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... for Shariah compliance," said Alka Banerjee, vice president of Index Services. Standard and Poors also launched five more Arab Shariah country indices in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. These form part of the S&P/IFCG emerging market series. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... In market news, engineering and construction firm, Leighton Holdings Ltd, will merge its Gulf region division with United Arab Emirates company, Al Habtoor Engineering, investing $879 million for a 45 per cent stake in the new entity. Leighton said the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
The Australian share market is expected to shrug off a neutral lead from Wall Street and open higher on the back of strong base metal prices. At 0808 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index was up 56 points to 6280. ABS lending ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... flat as investors sold Advantest and other recent gainers, but Marubeni surged on news of its plan to invest in the United Arab Emirates and on a brokerage upgrade, helping the benchmark hold above 18,000. The Nikkei dipped 0.07 per cent, or 12.88 points ...

Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... Partners, which will hold a mix of listed and unlisted securities sourced from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the United Arab Emirates. The company has some heavyweights on the board - former senior partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and managing ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has again revised its estimates of the impact of the national drought which is now expected to impact about 60 per cent of the nation's arable land as opposed to the forecast of 40 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The release of the latest national accounts data shows that the seasonally adjusted final consumption expenditure measure of GDP grew by only 0.3 per cent over the last quarter to take the annual tally to 2.2 per cent. Positive or negative contributions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
ABS international trade data shows that Australia's trade imbalance increased in October by $535 million on the revised September figure to tally to a deficit of $1.26 billion. Exports rose by about 2 per cent to $18,047 million whereas imports rose ...