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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower, following falls in metals and oil prices overnight. At 0650 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was down five points at 5,260. Copper and oil futures closed lower, weighed ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... US$1.3993; 9% from its one-year high against the British pound and 9% against even the depreciated Japanese yen. Plummeting oil prices are increasing downward momentum on Eurozone deflation - minus 0.2% in December - pressured by stagnant growth (0.8 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains in oil prices and US and European sharemarkets. The March share price index futures contract was up 76 points at 5,307. On Friday, Wall Street stocks gained one per cent as oil prices rebounded ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... to $54.37 and Fortescue Metals slid six cents to $2.28. But energy stocks did better thanks to the overnight rise in oil prices. Santos gained 24 cents to $7.60 in early trade, while Oil Search lifted 16 cents to $7.35. Woodside Petroleum was up 9.5 ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... boost the level of GDP by between 0.3% and 0.7% this year. Similarly, World Bank research found that a 10% drop in oil prices would increase oil importing countries' GDP by 0.1 to 0.5 percentage points. Not only this, the World Bank also notes that lower ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... correction being experienced by the global resources sector that is being reinforced by the collapse in global energy and oil prices. Indeed only two of the companies have experienced share price gains while some of the falls have been as large as 40 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket has opened lower following another slide in oil prices overnight. The market is around 0.7% lower. That follows a fall of more than 0.5% on Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 0.8% decline in its S&P 500 overnight. ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh, climate ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... US$51.84 a barrel and WTI's down 9.2% to US$48.36 a barrel. US$30 per barrel here we come... or US$20... or even lower. Oil prices have traded below US$20 before you know. Except for a brief spike to a bit over US$40 in late 1990 (yes, spike), oil fetched ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... and transmit this weakness other economies and markets, etcetera, etcetera... etcetera. We're doomed! Brent and WTI oil prices fell further at the end of last week's trading - Brent down US$61.85 a barrel and WTI down to US$57.81 (off 44.6% and 41.3% ...