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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... points, or 0.49 per cent, to close at 12,050.00 points, with Dow components ExxonMobil and Chevron falling heavily after oil prices dropped sharply. The International Energy Agency's decided to release 60 million barrels of crude from its members countries' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold, silver and oil prices settled firmer. But copper and prices finished lower. At 0800 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... weekend offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold and silver prices settled firmer. But copper and oil prices finished lower. At 0739 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up three points at 4,482 points, on volume ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... track for a seventh straight weekly loss. The dollar jumped against the euro amid eurozone risk concerns and crude oil prices plunged 4.6 per cent in New York. Bond prices leapt as investors sought safer assets. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Europe and American equities posted strong advances, punctuated by the 1.3 per cent gain in the S&P 500 index. Crude oil prices increased the most in four weeks. Prices of precious and industrial metals rebounded. All because financial markets changed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... flagging. Energy stocks were lifted after OPEC agreed to maintain output quotas at a Vienna meeting, sending global oil prices sharply higher. ExxonMobil, the Dow's biggest component, added 0.9 per cent to $80.76. Pfizer fell 0.3 per cent to $20.68. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... energy sector on Wednesday, with Woodside down (around) two per cent," he said, adding that this was despite steady oil prices overnight. Shares in Woodside dropped $1.17 or 2.6 per cent to $43.88, while Santos fell 32 cents, or 2.28 per cent to $13.72 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... figures in part on the impact of Japan's March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster on US manufacturers as well as a jump in oil prices but the headline figures were still terrible. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up 0.12 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... remained relatively subdued ahead of a long holiday weekend, with markets closed on Monday for Memorial Day. Rallying oil prices -- topping $US101 a barrel in New York -- boosted energy and commodity-linked shares. On the blue-chip Dow, ExxonMobil, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... dropped 14.6 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 4,708.3. NEW YORK - US stocks edged down on Tuesday as two banks predicted oil prices will rise to $US130 a barrel and data showed the market for new homes remained weak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost ...