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Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... asset purchases - or promising to do it sooner than 2014 - better go short. The financial headlines say so. "Global shares, oil fall sharply on U.S. growth concern," printed Reuters. "U.S. Stocks Fall as Energy, Financials Tumble on Economy," says Bloomberg. ...

Climate change already affecting investments: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... was 35 cents lower at $30.60 and Westpac had slid 27 cents to $30.51. The energy sector was down 0.71 per cent, with Aurora Oil and Gas down 27 cents at $3.47 and Santos six cents lower at $12.60. Mr Heffernan said the upcoming Easter break - local markets ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... positive night on Wall Street, where the Dow advanced 0.39 per cent, the S&P500 climbed 0.67 per cent and contract prices for oil rose. Energy stocks were the best-performing sector at the open, having risen 0.71 per cent. Santos was up six cents at ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... man who, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "...has seized more than 1,000 companies or their assets, leveraged soaring oil prices to play hardball with such multinationals as Exxon Mobil (XOM) and ConocoPhillips (COP), and pushed through price controls ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Health Care and Whitehaven Coal are among the companies expected to post first half results, while QBE Insurance Group and Oil Search are due to announce full year earnings. Meanwhile, Macmahon shareholders are due to vote on the sale of its construction ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... cents to $37.07 and Rio Tinto was down 32 cents at $66.98. Santos on Friday posted a drop in full year net profit, but the oil and gas producer said it still expected to meet its production targets in 2013. "The market will react positively to that - ...

QE paradox in reverse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... correctly pinpointing the catalyst to the correction that I've been warning about in recent days. I thought it would be dearer oil prices. I put it out there only last Monday in my column titled "Temper, temper" ( http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/25600960 ...

Oil price spike won't spoil Aussie equity party

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
While the rising oil price might make some investors worry about the sustainability of the global economy, Perpetual Investment's head of investment market research, Matt Sherwood, says Australian businesses should be more insulated. Rainmaker chief ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... economic stats. But there's also 'Murphy's Law': "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". And that "anything" could be oil. It's getting me worried. Markets could slip on it. Brent oil closed at US$118.53 per barrel last Friday, up 7.4% since the ...