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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... share market was lower at noon on Monday in "cautious" trading, as investors continued to digest developments on fighting in Libya and the nuclear emergency in Japan. Performances from major resources and banking stocks were mixed. At 1200 AEDT, the ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... currency markets to bring the yen exchange rate down. OPEC's announced assurances that it would pump more oil to make up for Libya's lost production. The EMU is expected to announce the doubling of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) to EUR440 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... Australian share market is set for a nervous start on Monday, after the US and a coalition of forces launched air strikes on Libya over the weekend. At 0731 AEDT, the June share price index contract was 18 points lower at 4,629 points, with 5,745 contracts ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... local unit earlier lost more than a third of a US cent, after the UN Security Council voted to approve a no-fly zone over Libya. Currency traders were soon heartened after a joint statement from G-7 officials saying that the United States, Britain, Canada ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... reconstruction effort expected later in the year will spark a revival. Sentiment was already under pressure from violence in Libya and unrest in the wider Middle East and as this rumbles on, the outlook become even more uncertain. In London, the FTSE ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices all ended down more than 1.8 per cent. Markets were also nervous about the conflict in Libya and unrest in OPEC oil linchpin Saudi Arabia. Also hitting sentiment was the worsening European debt crisis and Chinese data ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... market is receiving strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with foreign markets spooked by the crisis in Libya, and poor data from China, the US and Spain. On the ASX 24 at 0832 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... on this day. The international community might be asking, ordering, intimidating Queen Qaddafi to stop hostilities and "libya people alone" but it is what happens on the 11th of this month in Saudi that could finally settle oil's near-term direction. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... NEW YORK - US stocks were flat on Wednesday following the chop and change of the oil market, as concerns about events in Libya and a lack of indicators provided little direction for traders. Lingering Middle East unrest and resurfacing euro-area debt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... barrel after Kuwait's oil minister said that OPEC members are in informal talks about raising oil output as the conflict in Libya continues. Oil prices have risen nine per cent so far this month. That has pushed stocks lower as investors worry that higher ...