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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised its growth forecast for the US economy, while increasing tensions in the Middle East sent oil even higher. Strong corporate earnings reports provided support as markets grow more optimistic about the global outlook. ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... sent Tunisia's President Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak packing could expand to more countries in Africa and the Middle East are becoming reality. But it is the autocrats of Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iran and now Libya that are trembling... not the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all clearly lower, along with oil, although precious metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0714 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...