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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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... following reports that its new iPhone models may not be available in China until 2015. Oil companies rallied as US oil prices jumped nearly $2 a barrel. Dow member ExxonMobil rose 1.2 per cent, while ConocoPhillips advanced 1.7 per cent. LONDON - European ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... William Lynch, director of investment at Hinsdale Associates. Dow member ExxonMobil dipped 1.3 per cent, hurt by lower oil prices and by worry that sanctions on Russia will curtail the oil giant's plans in the country. LONDON - European stock markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... worries that the new Apple payment system threatens its own PayPal service. Dow member ExxonMobil fell 0.6 per cent as oil prices dropped to new multi-month lows. Caterpillar, another Dow component, shed 1.4 per cent following a downgrade by Bank of ...