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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... 46 cents to $60.62 while iron ore miner Fortescue Metals was down 7.5 cents at $32.35. Energy stocks were up after oil prices rebounded slightly on signs of stronger-than-expected demand in the United States. Shares in energy company Santos rose 12 cents ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
The Australian share market is lower as a large fall in commodity prices overnight weighs on the market. Oil prices have plunged, with Brent North Sea crude for delivery in December hitting a four-year low after Saudi Arabia slashed its export prices ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... wonder, wonder if there's anyone on this planet that's wishin' and hopin' and prayin' for higher and forever rising crude oil prices - except, that is, for the producers and the sellers of the slick black stuff... and of course, the climate changers. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower after mainly negative performance on Wall Street as oil prices slump. At 0828 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,501. In local economic news ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... Energy Shares Decline With Oil" would have you believe. I said it once and I'll say it a thousand times... falling oil prices are not a negative for economic growth - they stimulate it. Lower oil prices reduce the cost of business inputs and lift disposable ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... it's a bit different. While the Arab Spring brought uncertainty in the Middle East and raised the oil price back then, oil prices have been dropping despite the current tensions. There was also Japan's earthquake /tsunami/ and nuclear meltdown in 2011 ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Drop With Oil". The fade whittled the S&P 500's gains down to a mere 0.2% at the close and the Dow to small negative. Oil prices are dropping and are expected to keep on going down, down should the International Energy Agency's latest prediction comes ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... cent, to $39.90 and Woolworths was 39 cents, or 1.2 per cent, lower at $33.34. Energy stocks were all down despite oil prices recovering slightly. Woodside Petroleum had dropped 33 cents to $38.37, Santos had lost eight cents to $12.51 and Oil Search ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... Abenomics (Japan's economic policy) is not working either," he said. The biggest falls are in resources stocks, with oil prices tumbling overnight amid weak economic data out of Germany. Woodside Petroleum was 76 cents weaker at $39, Santos had dropped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... modest slowdown in September manufacturing activity compared with the prior month. The strengthening US dollar, lower oil prices that have hit energy equities and the first confirmed US case of the Ebola virus, also prompted unease. LONDON - European ...