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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... $34.67, Westpac had added two cents to $36.25, while National Australia Bank had dropped five cents to $36.45. A slide in oil and iron ore prices was dragging mining and energy stocks lower. BHP Billiton had fallen 75 cents to $31.24, Rio Tinto had dipped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat, following a weaker lead from Wall Street with US stocks fluctuating as oil prices again fall. At 0836 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 5,716. In local ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The share market is set for a tenth straight day of gains as rebounding oil prices lift energy and mining stocks. The market is more than 1.2 per cent higher at noon, and a stronger close will mark its longest winning run since mid-2013. BHP Billiton ...

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LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after the Reserve Bank cut interest rates to a new record low and oil prices rebounded. At 0837 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 97 points at 5,740. Consumers are waiting ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... will cut interest rates. The market is more than half a per cent higher, following strong gains from Wall Street and rising oil prices overnight. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the local market was also being buoyed by rising expectations the RBA ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... half year results. In Australia, the market on Monday closed higher for an eighth session in a row as a lift in the price of oil boosted the energy sector, and investors speculated on a cut in the official interest rate on Tuesday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
The share market is firmer as a weakening Australian dollar and an uptick in oil prices helped the energy stocks and mining giant BHP Billiton. The local currency dropped to 77.26 US cents overnight, sinking closer to levels last seen in July 2009. ...

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Positive economic numbers are already coming out from Asian countries following the fall in oil prices that started in late 2014, Nikko Asset Management revealed. "Asia is an undoubted winner of the fall in oil prices," Nikko Asset Management head of ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... index shed 0.41 per cent to 10,694.32 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 fell 0.59 per cent to 4,604.25 points. Plummeting world oil prices were largely to blame for the fall in the 19-country eurozone, already beset by weak economic growth and high unemployment ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... production guidance. The energy sector was also higher, with Santos up 5.5 cents at $7.785, Woodside up 15 cents at $33.89 and Oil Search eight cents firmer at $7.78.