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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... disaster." Overnight, oil prices pushed above $US105 per barrel, as traders focused on international crises in Libya and Yemen that could threaten global supplies at a time when consumption is tipped to increase. Meanwhile, Japan's meteorological agency ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... region. Here, for instance, are today's headlines from theage.com's World section: Buildings torched in Syrian protests Yemen teeters as generals defect Moroccans call for curbs on monarchy And, of course, there were side stories about Bahrain, Jordan ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... production and is the world's 15th largest exporter of the commodity. But there are similar uprisings now taking place in Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Algeria, Jordan and Djibouti - did I miss anyone? And so the D-word has come back in fashion. We're all doomed! ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. People power fever is spreading across the deserts of Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya and Yemen and is now threatening to head eastwards into Asia. The Age website reports that, "CHINA has cracked down on activists ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Mubarak packing could expand to more countries in Africa and the Middle East are becoming reality. But it is the autocrats of Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iran and now Libya that are trembling... not the financial markets. Darn it, another opportunity to ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... emboldened the Egyptians. The success of the people power revolution in Egypt is sure to encourage the ongoing protests in Yemen and Jordan and perhaps, spark new ones in the region. But having a new bottom sitting on the throne does not mean instant ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
While the sub-prime mortgage monster continues gnawing away at financial stocks, oil is boiling towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling ...
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