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Profits fly high on planes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... IGAF's investment board, ensuring a keen analytical eye scrutinizes every deal. He told Financial Standard that high oil prices were not necessarily more risky for airlines than other industries as they usually hit across the board - and what counted ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... ago - in January, February, March and April -- when the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and North Africa sent oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought when natural calamities in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other Brazil (I ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... 0.6 per cent, to 1,329.47. The Nasdaq fell 46.16, or 1.6 per cent, to 2,782.31. Commodity prices were mostly lower. Oil prices fell $2.28 to settle at $US97.37 a barrel Monday as worries eased that Mississippi River flooding could disrupt refineries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... negative territory in early trade, with Westpac losing more than three per cent as the stock went ex-dividend. Crude oil prices rose for the second day, running in choppy trade. In equities news, the Malaysian government has released the objectives and ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... equity market gains. Voila! If so, then what was all that anxiety on equity markets about earlier this year when crude oil prices crossed over into triple digits and food and other commodities soared? Because back then, the financial markets' logic was ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... the first in more than two years. Funny that because US inventories have been rising since the start of the year and oil prices kept on rising. And only now investors noticed? What did we say about rising oil prices as the cure for rising oil prices? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... producers also struggled after metals prices sank. Commodities are still more expensive than they were a year ago. High oil prices helped push the nation's trade deficit up six per cent to $US48.2 billion ($A44.54 billion) in March from February. US ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... in part because more people who resumed looking for work. The news on job growth helped lift the dollar, nudged up oil prices and reversed a four-day slump for stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 54.57 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... profits of nearly $US11 billion ($A10.15 billion) as the energy giant benefited from a politically sensitive surge in oil prices. Net income hit $US10.65 billion ($A9.83 billion) in the first quarter, a leap of 69 per cent from the year-ago period, the ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... companies that sell those commodities whose prices are rising. You don't have to look far for evidence of this. Escalating oil prices have oil companies raking it in - big time. How big? Here's how big: Exxon Mobil's net income jumped 69 per cent in ...