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Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... less subject to speculation than stock markets, which is why experienced investors refer to them as leading markets. Oil, silver, sugar, copper and other staples for both consumers and producers have fallen severely in price of late. The selling may ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... government efforts to cool overall growth. Microsoft announced it is buying internet phone pioneer Skype from investor group Silver Lake, the Windows creator's largest-ever acquisition. Microsoft shares lost 0.6 per cent on the news, but shares of eBay ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... $7.02. "There are quite a lot of headwinds for the resources stocks. The gold price fell significantly overnight, as did silver, and oil went down enormously," RBS Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said. "So the market is looking forward and ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... this is the month of May, my index finger - not the middle one, that would be rude - is pointed straight at Comex and it's silver sniping. The exchange made it more - heaps more - expensive to trade SLV by raising its initial margin requirement. In just ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... 2,828.23. It's up 6.6 per cent this year. Signs that the economic recovery is slowing also dragged down commodity prices. Silver fell for the third day straight, losing 7.5 per cent to settle at $39.39 an ounce. Crude oil slipped 1.6 per cent to $109.24 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... "Apparently, there are some comments from one of the big global investors, George Soros, about him selling off gold and silver investments and that's putting a fair bit of pressure on the commodity currencies, so the Aussie is getting hit pretty hard," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Gold prices were at a record high at the end of last week but investors became nervous about commodity prices when the silver price plunged in Asia.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... Financial stocks are all looking fairly strong, with index leader BHP Billiton getting a boost from record high gold and silver prices and the oil price hit a two and a half year high on Friday." Among the major banks, Westpac, ANZ and NAB are due to ...

New super products and mergers may result - insurers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... payments, they will instead create their own product margin and become manufacturers rather then independent firms." The silver lining for advisers was the government inclusion of scaled advice which essentially levelled the field between advisers and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all finishing over one per cent lower. Gold and silver were higher, but oil slumped. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 46 points ...