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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... ground, with Westpac the strongest performer, up 2.35 per cent to $19.17. Energy stocks slipped 0.85 per cent after world oil prices crashed. Santos fell 28 cents to $10.57, and Woodside Petroleum lost 26 cents to $31.11. Uranium miner Paladin Energy ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... per cent to $37.01, with fellow miner Rio Tinto down $1.08 to $69.12. The energy sector also took a beating, after oil prices tumbled in London and New York on Monday. Woodside Petroleum fell 42 cents to $32.98, while Santos dropped 13 cents to $11.12. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... our market," he said. The energy sector continued to help the market higher, with stocks gaining 2.6 per cent after oil prices soared on offshore markets. Woodside Petroleum gained 89 cents to $34.10, Oil Search rose 19 cents to $6.14 and Santos was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... 1.7 per cent, to 4,071.7 while the broader All Ordinaries index rose 62.8 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 4,153.2. ENERGY Oil prices rose Thursday, buoyed by a wave of market euphoria over a coordinated effort by five central banks to provide US dollars ...

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 ...