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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Australian share market has opened sharply lower as oil stocks were pummelled following OPEC's decision not to cut production. Oil prices have sunk to fresh four-year lows, with New York crude tumbling below $US70 after the OPEC oil cartel held ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The cartel that controls 40% of oil production - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - met and concluded their 166th meeting in Vienna, Australia last night. The conclusion: "...in the interest of restoring market equilibrium, the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after the OPEC oil cartel decided not to cut output despite a supply gut and falling crude prices. At 0825 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,397. Wall ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... $58.29, but Fortescue Metals had firmed three cents to $2.82. Energy stocks were again getting battered ahead of a meeting of OPEC ministers to discussed the oil price crash. Woodside had eased 73 cents to $38.83 as it said it would push ahead with its ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... almost the same as it was in mid-October... almost. High supply -- because of increased US oil production and no cuts in OPEC output - and low demand -- due to weak global growth. However, this time around, Saudi Arabia photo bombed the picture... it ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... eight-month highs as violence escalated across northern and central Iraq, increasing the prospect of a return to civil war in OPEC's second-biggest oil producer... WTI advanced 2 percent while Brent gained 2.8 percent." (Bloomberg again). Yikes! Be afraid. ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... Or less, depending on the adverse impacts on oil importers and adverse impact on the economies of current oil exporters (OPEC), etc. But the impact would be positive... there's no doubt about it.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... 29 cents at $79.89. Commodity prices mostly struggled overnight, with the exception of oil, "which gained strongly after OPEC couldn't come to an agreement on increasing supply," Mr Saffer said. "We've seen the oil sector bounce back strongly today after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... spots in the US east and midwest, where industrial growth and business optimism is flagging. Energy stocks were lifted after OPEC agreed to maintain output quotas at a Vienna meeting, sending global oil prices sharply higher. ExxonMobil, the Dow's biggest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Dealers also kept a close watch on the oil market as speculation mounted that OPEC could increase crude output at a meeting on Wednesday in a bid to tame high energy prices at a time when the key US economy ...