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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... corporate reports from the tail end of the earnings season failed to inspire investors, who remained concerned about Middle East turmoil. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down six points, or 0.12 per cent, at 4,830.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... many talking heads and those with literary licenses - the Jasmine Revolution currently doing its tour in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region would send oil prices soaring and derail the fledgling global recovery or ignite inflation or both ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... "There is still a lot of uncertainty in the market and a tug of war between keeping one eye on the developments in the middle east and a clear global recovery," he said. Locally, the major sectors opened lower, with mining giant BHP Billiton down 52 ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... barrel last night. And this is all because of worries that the political unrest would spread far and wide across the Middle East and Africa. Libya, in itself, accounts for only 2 per cent of global daily oil production and is the world's 15th largest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... effect is a risk to that whole region. "A good chunk of the region is still west friendly, whether a new reshapened Middle East remains the same is a concern. Mr Speizer said he expected the Australian dollar to trade in a range between 99.80 US cents ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... half. Still, Mr Leppinus said the sharemarket was vulnerable in the short term, given the bad news coming from the Middle East and North Africa. Worries about increasingly violent unrest in Libya saw the Dow Jones industrial average lose 178.46 points ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Revolting like it's 1989. It's the feeling I get when I look to the Middle East. Just like in 1989, several regimes in one region became a thing of the past as civil uprisings in one country emboldened protests in another... then another. Back then ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with nervousness stemming from unrest in the Middle East and concerns over possible economic tightening in China contrasting with positive economic news in Europe. With US markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... on Monday, with investors taking profits amid sentiment subdued by concerns over contagion from civil unrest in the Middle East. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 44.9 points at 4,891.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... DuBord at Briefing.com. LONDON - Europe's stock markets were narrowly mixed on Friday, amid continued bloodshed in the Middle East and with wary investors awaiting the results of a G20 meeting in Paris. London's FTSE 100 Index tipping downwards by just ...