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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 ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... exacerbated by speculation - and should ease as most central bankers expect. All these because of food and energy. Crude oil prices have reached a high of US$92.19 a barrel, more than 16 per cent above the US$79.36 per barrel it was fetching at the start ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... partly to the easing of Egypt's political crisis, although there was caution about upcoming Chinese inflation data while oil prices remained high. Tokyo's Nikkei climbed 1.13 per cent, or 119.89 points, to 10,725.54, despite data showing Japan's economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... week, the Dow is up 1.5 per cent and both the S&P and Nasdaq are up 1.4 per cent. Commodities were a weak spot as crude oil prices declined in parallel with a falling-off of worries of possible oil supply problems in the Middle East. March crude futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... Asian stock markets were mixed on Thursday as Shanghai revived after China's rate hike put the region on edge, while oil prices again rose due to worries about Egypt. The Shanghai Composite Index ended the session up 1.59 per cent, or 455.41 points ...