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Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... suggested American consumers are gaining confidence after a sluggish first quarter. However there were falls in gold, copper and oil prices. Locally on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance figures. In Australia, the market ...

Market flat at noon

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... cents at $55.93 and Fortescue Metals dipped four cents to $2.35. The energy sector did better after overnight rises in the oil price, with Woodside up 66 cents at $36.26, and Santos nine cents higher at $8.09. Woolworths was up two cents at $27.13 after ...

Banks lead Australian market lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... BHP Billiton was up 22 cents at $28.55, Rio Tinto added $1.20 to $57.69, and Fortescue Metals was six cents richer at $2.44. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum was 23 cents weaker at $35.88, but Santos put on seven cents at $8.15. Food manufacturer ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... cent in consolidated passenger unit revenue, a key industry benchmark, citing lower-than-expected US business class sales. Oil-services stocks surged as US oil prices finished above $61 a barrel, the highest level all year. Halliburton rose 1.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business investment figures for the March quarter. And in equities news, US-focused oil and gas producer Sundance Energy has its annual general meeting in Adelaide. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed ...

Share market flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... spinoff South32 was steady at $2.37, Rio Tinto had gained 72 cents to $57.62 and Fortescue Metals was two cents higher at $2.14. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum had jumped 66 cents to $35.53 and Santos had put on 16.5 cents to $8.075 as the oil ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... strategy had been overweight in pipeline companies, but that it has now changed its position to neutral, following the fall in oil prices. "What we're seeing now is that the [pipeline companies'] stocks have underperformed and the sector is starting ...

Miners weigh on share market

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said market heavyweights BHP and Rio were lower because iron ore and oil prices were soft overnight. "BHP and Rio are both down more than two per cent - that's what's caused the market to go down," ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... into $US1.03 per share, a penny shy of analyst expectations. Many petroleum-linked stocks tumbled following a big retreat in oil prices, including Anadarko Petroleum (-1.7 per cent), Halliburton (-3.5 per cent) and Transocean (-5.9 per cent). Dow member ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... Shanghai shed 1.59 per cent, or 69.62 points, to 4,308.69. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket has advanced, as cheaper oil prices benefited some leading stocks. The NZX 50 Index rose 21.972 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5760.376 on Friday.