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The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... 93.8 million bpd in September. Also according to the IEA, "Brent prices have fallen by over 20% since June, when turmoil in Iraq lifted prices to $116/bbl". Ahh, I remember that... that was the time - 13 June 2014 to be precise -- Bloomberg headlined ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... discourages business and consumer spending) plus the geo-political troubles at the eurozone's doorstep - Putin tit-for-tat, Syria, Iraq, Ebola - plus tighter fiscal budgets equals, more weakness. We've also been warning - you and I, Virginia - about ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... consensus, but it does not appear to be headed for a hard landing, the committee believes. It also said problems in Ukraine and Iraq are not likely to escalate dramatically. While investors have begun to doubt whether reform measures in Japan are going ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Virginia? The financial press line up the usual suspects (and some freshly picked ones): interest rate concerns; geo-politics - Iraq, Syria, Russia, HK/China; tepid global growth; Ebola.... and then the dip buyers, the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... right now, the question must be asked: Is this going to be one of those Octobers? There's geo-political uncertainty - ISIS, Iraq, Syria and just recently... Hong Kong. There's a developing health epidemic - Ebola (recall how we peed our pants with SARS ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... 1.5 per cent and the Nasdaq dropping close to two per cent. The slide was driven chiefly by concerns about the conflict in Iraq and Syria, and the prospect of interest rate rises in the US in 2015. But IG market strategist Stan Shamu said those drivers ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... companies suffer significant falls. Shares were being weighed down by lower commodity prices, ongoing concerns about conflict in Iraq and Syria, and talk the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates more quickly than expected over the next few years ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
The Australian stock market is lower as news of a slowdown in Chinese industrial production and expectations the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates weigh on investors. Official figures released over the weekend showed industrial production ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014