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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 ...

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? ...