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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... with 9,807 contracts traded. Miners, energy and retail stocks led the market lower on Monday morning after metals and oil prices fell offshore and investors dropped riskier bets. Fortescue Metals shed 2.3 per cent to $4.64 after the Australia's third-biggest ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... 2010." Here, I was correct until... the Jasmine Revolution sent Middle Eastern and African dictators quivering and oil prices soaring. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak stepped down peacefully but Libya's Qadaffi was ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... "Stocks higher on surging oil price" headline Reuters at 0547 hours when the Dow was trading above zero. Because "higher oil prices lifted energy shares" but it's scratching it's head why the price of a barrel of oil by US$4 per barrel overnight. "...traders ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... energy stocks on the hope that commodity prices will rise. Energy stocks led the market higher, adding 2.3 per cent as oil prices pushed closer to the $100 a barrel market overnight and investors' appetite for riskier bets increased. News that Whitehaven ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... reports of cybercrime targeting businesses around the world skyrocketing, a report said on Tuesday. LONDON - World oil prices have surged as traders reacted to news that protesters had stormed Britain's embassy in Tehran. NEW YORK - Upward momentum in ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... 1,188.04. Among the Dow's 30 blue chip stocks, oil and gas giant Chevron saw one of the biggest gains, up 0.7 per cent, as oil prices jumped. Oil prices were pushed higher by the announcement of US, British and Canadian sanctions against Iran's central ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... year there appeared to be no let up in worries that keeps one awake at night. Global growth concerns due to rising oil prices (resulting from the "Arab Spring") and the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown in Japan bothered investors in the first quarter. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... strategist Stan Shamu said. The night's events included a sell-off of commodities, including gold and silver, with oil prices also plunging and giving back the previous night's gains. "It was only natural that resources were going to be the worst performers ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... for September fell 8.2 per cent from the previous month, worse than the market's expectation for a 7.1 per cent fall. Oil prices inched lower in Asian trade, hurt by fears that the eurozone's debt crisis could cast a pall over global energy demand. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... ounce from Thursday's close at $US1,671.30. Energy stocks were also hit hard, trading 1.45 per cent lower after world oil prices fell Thursday as traders fretted about slowing demand in China after its trade surplus narrowed for a second straight month. ...