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Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 per barrel and the price of Brent oil slipped by 5.3% to US$40.73 a barrel - both their ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... have oil prices. While lower overnight, at US$64.64 per barrel, Brent oil's still up 36.9% from the January low of US$47.22. WTI oil is up 31.2% to US$56.94 from the US$43.39 hit around the middle of last month. Whether these price rises persist remain ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... price of crude oil - on both measures. Brent is up 37.3% to US$64.83 a barrel from the US$47.22 low touched in mid-January; WTI oil is up 30.5% to US$56.63 from the US$43.39 hit around the middle of last month. Maybe today's the day. The breach of a ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... energy - were leading the market down after a 2.6 per cent drop in the iron ore price to $US51.35 per tonne. while the price of WTI crude fell 2.2 per cent to $47.60 a barrel. BHP had shed 67 cents, or 2.2 per cent, to $30.36, Rio Tinto was down 89 cents ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Reuters/Jeffries CRB index jumped by 1.5%; crude oil went on a tear with the price of Brent surging by 5.4% and that of the WTI jumping by 3.2%. COMEX gold and silver prices went up by 1.7% and 2.7%, respectively. So did the prices of agricultural commodities ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something like that? Last night's numbers show both WTI and Brent oil prices dropping by 2.3% but instead of declining in sympathy, the Dow closed up 1.3% and the S&P 500 ended 1.4% ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... keys to email, don't repeat to mommy that it's because of the sharp bounce in oil prices - Brent now up to US$61.52/barrel; WTI up to US$52.78 - neither is it due to the Ukraine/Russia ceasefire nor Greece debt discussions (which, according to Eurogroup ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... And oil prices have risen more than five per cent overnight on hopes of rebounding global energy demand, with with Brent and WTI striking $57.23 and $51.56 respectively at one point. In local news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group releases ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
We're back to crude oil spotting again folks. Prices dropped big time again last night - WTI oil down 4.0% to US$44.36 a barrel and Brent's down 2.4% to US$48.43 per barrel. Not surprisingly, Wall Street, which had been trading flat for most of the ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... crude continues to dance the limbo (how low can you go?) After a strong start, Wall Street buckled after lunch as the price of WTI dropped to a low of US$44.20 a barrel and Brent touched US$45.19. The S&P 500 index gained as much as 1.4%, then lost as ...