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Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... share average dipped 0.16 per cent to set its longest losing streak in more than half a century as worries about high oil prices and the global economy hit exporters such as Toyota. The Nikkei fell 20.97 points on the day to end at 13,265.40. HONG KONG ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... Australian share market is expected to open lower today after Wall Street stocks tumbled in volatile trade as crude oil prices raced to record highs triggering fresh economic jitters. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price ...

Rates on hold thanks to oil prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
High oil prices is causing inflation to rise to nearly 5 per cent but at least they helped convince the Reserve Bank to not lift interest rates. Yesterday the Reserve held off pushing rates above their 7.25 per cent benchmark level citing slowing domestic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... and financial shares reversed earlier losses as investors scoured for bargains, overshadowing concerns about record oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 32.25 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 11,382.26. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after Wall Street fell on concerns that record oil prices and the seemingly endless credit crisis will further damage the economy. Resource stocks may gain after commodities including oil, gold ...

End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Less than a week after the Jeddah oil summit and oil prices have broken through the US$140 barrier, share markets have plunged and we are being warned the sub-prime fiasco still has two years left to run. And if that wasn't enough, president of OPEC ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... points, or 1.09 per cent, to 5421.5. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have tumbled, sending blue chips to a two-year low, as oil prices leapt to fresh highs and sentiment was hit by a barrage of troubling economic and corporate news. The blue-chip Dow Jones ...

Oil prices force end to corporate profit boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... Sherwood, senior manager for investment markets research at Perpetual, has just released a research note warning that high oil prices will squeeze earnings growth as they compress sales and lifts operating costs. "If the oil price rise is sustained around ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
For a country that complains about paying record high oil prices, Australia is set to enjoy an export revenue bonanza as it exploits shortages in world food, commodities and resources. Yesterday the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... below 12,000 points for the first time since March, amid renewed worries about the financial and auto sectors, and as oil prices pushed higher. Most economists expect the US central bank to leave its base rate pegged at two per cent following a two-day ...