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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... Santos was up six cents at $7.42, but Woodside Petroleum had fallen 52 cents to $34.54. The oil market has tumbled after OPEC said it produced more oil in December than its target, despite sharply falling prices, and lowered its global demand outlook ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... shock in the early 70's and 80's when oil prices soared. Ahh yes, those were the days of global tension and hatred for the OPEC cartel and their oil embargo. The jump in crude prices from below US$5.00 a barrel to US$15.50 in 1973 induced a US recession ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... forecast for next year. There may be more pain in store if Suhail Al-Mazrouei's - the UAE's energy minister - statement that OPEC is "not going to change our minds because the prices went to $60 or to $40". Oh-em-gee! If markets are panicking at US$60 ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... join the allied forces. Yes Virginia, it's turning out to be a fight between the central banks - lifting demand - and the OPEC cartel drowning their competition with supply. And this is good for Australia. Cheap oil is good. Us, blokes and sheilas, will ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's fall of more than one per cent amid an energy stock sell-off after OPEC cut its forecast on 2015 demand for oil. At 0911 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... regional oil and gas research at Nomura Holdings Inc., wrote in an e-mail Nov. 28. China will be "a big beneficiary" from the OPEC decision, he said." And because Australia's joined at China's hip, Australians all, let us rejoice. And the rest of 'em ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... sector, but Tokyo hit a seven-year high. Energy firms took a hit for a second successive session while airlines climbed after OPEC's decision to maintain oil output levels despite a supply glut and plunging prices. Tokyo rallied 0.75 per cent to its ...

Market wrap PM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... another fall in oil prices hits energy stocks. The Brent price of crude oil has touched a fresh four-and-a-half year low after OPEC nations shied away from cutting production to deal with a global oversupply. "The price is going to remain fairly depressed ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... oil prices peaked at US$106.83 per barrel on 20 June. They've dropped by 38.1% as at last Friday's close. I googled oil and OPEC - the reason cited as the cause of the recent price plunge - and found 41,800,000 results. The narratives were wide ranging ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after OPEC chose not to cut oil production levels. At 0822 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,294. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank ...