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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after heavy falls on Wall Street where oil and coal stocks led the tumble as the price of oil continued a multi-week decline. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract ...

ANU divests seven companies, seeks equities manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... investment policy. The five companies to be excluded are Iluka Resources, Independence Group, Newcrest Mining, Sandfire Resources, Oil Search, Santos and Sirius Resources. ANU said the stocks to be divested represent around 5.1% of the university's Australian ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... a tremendously symbolic gesture, given that the endowment fund was founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. These events were the climax of a year in which many Australian investors put their money where their mouths were on climate ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... fund, LGS has included all types of coal in the screen. Companies deriving more than a third of their revenue from coal and oil sands are excluded, and will be divested immediately. The change will apply across all investment options. Prior to this announcement ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... to a modest slowdown in September manufacturing activity compared with the prior month. The strengthening US dollar, lower oil prices that have hit energy equities and the first confirmed US case of the Ebola virus, also prompted unease. LONDON - European ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... to be up 15 cents at $59.36. Similarly, Woodside had fallen 11 cents to $40.42, but Santos was up three cents to $13.71 and Oil Search had also gained, rising 3.5 cents to $8.955. The supermarket giants were lower, with Woolworths down 12 cents at $33.98 ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... surplus, and secondly whether it is primarily a commodity or manufactured goods exporter." Power explained that by this theory, oil exporters could be grouped in the north-east bloc; sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Indonesia in the north-west bloc ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... comes two days after the Rockefeller Brothers Fund - an endowment fund founded with wealth from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil - announced it was joining the Divest-Invest movement.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... markets, he said. Apple fell 0.8 per cent following reports that its new iPhone models may not be available in China until 2015. Oil companies rallied as US oil prices jumped nearly $2 a barrel. Dow member ExxonMobil rose 1.2 per cent, while ConocoPhillips ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... said William Lynch, director of investment at Hinsdale Associates. Dow member ExxonMobil dipped 1.3 per cent, hurt by lower oil prices and by worry that sanctions on Russia will curtail the oil giant's plans in the country. LONDON - European stock markets ...