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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... 100.60 cents on Thursday. Since 1700 AEDT, the Australian dollar traded between 100.01 US cents and 101.24 US cents. Oil prices are trading up around $US100 a barrel as anti-government clashes in Libya intensify with rebels controlling much of the eastern ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4 ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... whatever his correct name is - a butcher by any other name is still a... -- murderous defense of his throne has sent oil prices spiralling upwards. He will not go peacefully like his counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt. And oil as we know it ladies and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... said the Australian dollar weakened overnight because of the continuing Libyan unrest. "Libya on its own is pushing up oil prices for now and higher oil prices are a risk for global growth," Mr Speizer said from Wellington. "The contagion effect is a ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... bear Mohamed El-Erian. Bloomberg reports that, "There will be "higher inflation and lower growth because of higher oil prices, which take away purchasing power and transfers wealth somewhere else," El-Erian said. There will be "higher geopolitical risk ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... share market finished weaker as selling pressure gripped Asia bourses on concerns of more violence in Libya, higher oil prices, and local profit-taking. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.3 points, or 0.88 per cent, at 4,856.7, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Australian share market was weaker at noon with the market responding to unrest in Libya and rising oil prices. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 21.7 points at 4,877, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 23.5 points lower ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... worry about. Else, markets would always go in a straight line - up or down. How will traders earn their keep then? Oil prices are rocketing again... as should be expected. They'll go even higher if the rolling people power protests heads into the major ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed on Monday as escalating violence in the Middle East depressed sentiment and sent oil prices higher, while China's monetary tightening last week also weighed. There was little reaction to a G20 meeting in Paris that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... marginally, were Amsterdam, where the market put on 0.32 per cent, and the Swiss bourse, up 0.19 per cent. HONG KONG - Oil prices remained high in Asia as a Japanese minister fretted about the effects of Middle East unrest, while stock markets were mixed ...