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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... broader All Ordinaries index rose 7.6 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 4,277.4 points. ENERGY NEW YORK, Sept 9, 2011 (AFP) - Oil prices tumbled Friday, along with stock markets, as concerns intensified about the health of the European and US economies amid ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... rate cut somewhat more likely." Elsewhere on the market, local players poured into energy stocks on Thursday after oil prices rose during offshore trading. The sector was up 0.93 per cent according to Iress data, led by Oil Search, which was the best-performing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... chief Christine Lagarde that weaker European banks, heavily exposed to troubled eurozone debt, needed to recapitalise. Oil prices rose meanwhile, helped by the US consumer spending data and with traders trying to see if there was any impact from Irene ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... labour market. And get this... commodity prices have been on the skids too. Take the price of oil, for instance. Crude oil prices have fallen by 28.8% to US$81.15 per barrel last night from its 2011 peak of US$113.93 back in April. The price of food ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... anticipate growth to rebound in the second half of the year as the negative impact of some temporary factors (higher oil prices, supply chain disruptions) dissipates.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... that its second-quarter profits surged 41 per cent from last year to $US10.7 billion ($A9.74 billion) thanks to rising oil prices, but the results fell short of analysts' forecasts. Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.95 per ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... "The slower pace of the recovery reflects in part factors that are likely to be temporary," due to higher food and oil prices earlier in the year and the disruptions to supply-chains resulting from Japan's 11 March calamity. The latest instalment being ...

I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... "The slower pace of the recovery reflects in part factors that are likely to be temporary," due to higher food and oil prices earlier in the year and the disruptions to supply-chains resulting from Japan's 11 March calamity. This is confirmed by rebounds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... part by rolling over a large portion of Greece's debt into 30-year bonds. Energy stocks jumped along with a rebound in oil prices, with ExxonMobil rising 2.1 per cent and Chevron gaining 1.4 per cent after the world's two major oil benchmarks -- West ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... plummeting after the International Energy Agency announced a drawdown of strategic petroleum stocks to drive down soaring oil prices. ExxonMobil was down 2.3 per cent for the week, while Chevron was down 1.3 per cent. Google stock took a beating after ...