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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... than the previous corresponding period due to difficult market conditions. Wall Street closed higher on Tuesday after oil prices fell again. The Dow rose 135.16, or 1.18 per cent to 11,602.50 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index jumped 17, or 1.35 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... market is expected to open in positive territory after Wall Street closed sharply higher overnight as another drop in oil prices improved investor sentiment. At 0811 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract ...

CAAM backs oil rich EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) Global Emerging Markets fund is bullish on a Russia and Brazil as a result of rising oil prices. Stephane Mauppin-Higashino, CAAM head of product specialist team, said the fund was overweight Brazil and Russia. "We are ...

Quiet Market Activity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... indication of whether higher or lower prices at the producer level are being passed onto consumers. In other news, crude oil prices rose by US$2.16 to US$131.04 a barrel overnight the US National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for the southwest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... from a year ago amid fresh writedowns from real estate but well above expectations. Sentiment was hurt by a rebound in oil prices, after steep falls last week. LONDON - European stock exchanges forged ahead on Monday. The London FTSE 100 index gained ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... 113.54 points, or 2.76 per cent, to 4,225.99 TOKYO - Japanese stocks added one per cent after a sharp drop in crude oil prices and a strong rebound on Wall Street. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 index gained 127.15 points to 12,887.95. ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... back in September 2006. The Fed remains stuck between a rock and a hard place. News of another sharp drop in crude oil prices overnight is encouraging. Crude oil prices fell to a low of US$134.60 per barrel last night from US$139.86/barrel. This represents ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... sparking fears of more heavy losses in the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Adding to the turmoil were a sharp spike in oil prices to fresh record highs and another slide in the US dollar, all against a backdrop of political unease over Iran and the possibility ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... share market lifted as investors snapped up stocks that now look cheap after being beaten down on the back of higher oil prices, the global credit crunch and fears of an economic slowdown. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 79 points, or 1.6 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... to 5022.4. It was the S&P/ASX 200's lowest close since 15 August 2006 when it finished at 4936. NEW YORK - Tumbling oil prices fuelled a rally on Wall Street, helping investors shake off renewed fears about a credit squeeze and further economic turmoil ...