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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... Corp. and Accenture Plc are helping the markets extend the week's gains, despite continued euro-area debt concerns, Middle East tensions, and the nuclear crisis in Japan," said analysts at brokerage Charles Schwab. Oracle shares closed up 1.7 per cent ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... gains in energy prices - up 35.5 per cent since January last year. But despite the additional premium created by the Middle East and North African turmoil, demand for crude oil had been steadily increasing as a result of strengthening economic activity. ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... supplier of commodities, too, yet their currencies have not participated fully into that boom and future demand. The Middle East conflict and the Japanese earthquake have dampened some of Mittal's prediction on growth - but only by timing, not in size. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... adviser Adrian Leppinus said investor's risk appetite had returned as there was now more certainty around events in the Middle East and Japan. "There has been a lot of political unrest going on the last few weeks, but obviously the market has shrugged ...

Future Fund appoints GM

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... chair of the board of guardians. Before joining the Treasury Group, Burgess was vice chairman and CEO, Europe and Middle East at Credit Suisse Asset Management London. He has also been global head of equities at American Express Asset Management International ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... were boosted by rising commodity prices amid expectations of high demand for Japanese reconstruction and fears over Middle East unrest. But gains eroded as higher levels of radioactive substances were detected in tap water supplies in Chiba and Saitama ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... the financial stocks are in favour," Mr Sekely said. He said the market had largely ignored spreading unrest in the Middle East and some disappointing US housing data. Local investors had not taken much notice of the resignation of the prime minister ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... markets closed higher on Wednesday in hesitant trade as investors tried to keep a fix on fast moving events in the Middle East and Japan's nuclear crisis. The markets opened in positive territory but slipped back as disappointing US housing data and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... said. "The lack of new catastrophic news out of Japan is helping sentiment. "We still have ongoing tensions in the Middle East though, so that still has the potential to affect risk appetite." The Bank of England is due to release minutes for its March ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... lingering in the background, the current threat to the global recovery of higher oil prices due to tensions in the Middle East and the contractionary forces brought about by the UK government's fiscal austerity, the risk to Britain's economy is to the ...