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Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... of Statistics will release lending finance figures for March. In equities news, Paladin Energy issues a trading update and Oil Search holds its annual general meeting in Port Moresby. In Australia, the market on Thursday fell, with investors unwilling ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... boosted by energy and retail stocks. "The energy sector is certainly the stand-out early in the session on some gains in the oil prices overnight," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said Woodside Petroleum gained 36 cents to $34.87, Santos was ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... I'm so, like... over it. By the by, Financial Standard's team of talented and dedicated journalists burned the near-midnight oil to bring you some of the whys, hows, whens and wherefores of Budget 2015/16 (financialstandard.com.au). It's good. It's less ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... while Rio Tinto was 71 cents higher to $59.33 and Fortescue Metals lifted three cents, or more than one per cent, to $2.60. Oil and gas giant Woodside was 18 cents higher to $34.32, while Santos picked up nine cents to $8.68.

China exposure best through Australia: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... all in local currency." Half of the currency is hedged, and the other half is unhedged. "India has benefitted from falling oil prices, its government has credibility and the reforms seem to be working. We feel really strongly about it," he said. BlackRock ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... while Rio Tinto was 62 cents higher to $59.06 and Fortescue Metals lifted 10 cents, or more than four per cent, to $2.60. Oil and gas giant Woodside was 55 cents higher to $34.55, while Santos picked up nine cents to $8.68. Among the major banks, the ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... Treasurer Joe Hockey in black and white. And it gets better, better, better. Commodity prices are picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's up 0.9% and copper's up 0.2%. This, because the PBOC did it again. The Chinese central bank announced a 25 bps reduction ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... third straight day after the Reserve Bank's monetary policy statement took the shine off banking stocks and falling crude oil prices belted energy stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 11.1 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 5,634.6. The broader All ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... after two days of heavy losses. The big miners and energy stocks are the only sectors to be slipping, following a dip in crude oil and iron ore prices. A moderate lead from Wall Street, where the broad-based S&P 500 rose 0.38 per cent, is helping the ...