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Oil on slippery slope?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... capitalise on reports of lower inventories and the threat of further disruptions to supply as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few months ago, just a hint of a lower-than-expected fall in crude oil inventories or an approaching hurricane ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... industrial average initially surged by nearly 250 points as oil prices dropped as low as $US105.46 a barrel on reports that the Gulf Coast and its oil facilities were spared heavy damage from Hurricane Gustav. But the positive effect of the storm's outcome ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... it rose again by $US2.21 to $US117.67 in a special trading session on Sunday. With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the US Gulf Coast, where the nation's oil extraction and refining industry has a strong focus, many facilities have been closed. At 1207 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... a disappointing earnings report from computer giant Dell weighed on the markets and Hurricane Gustav churned towards the Gulf of Mexico. Low volume may have intensified the losses with trade thin ahead of a three-day Labor Day holiday in the United States ...

Credit Suisse nabs AMF stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... investments business has a number of similar relationships with international companies including Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, Gulf Capital Partners, China Renaissance Capital Investment, and GE (Global Infrastructure Partners).

More worries for US financials

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... settled below US$113 a barrel last night following reports that Tropical Storm Fay will miss large oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The beginning of a Russian pullout from Georgia and comments by the Turkish energy minister that a key pipeline could ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... future investors. Among the biggest of these projects is a port with capacity greater than that of Dubai's Jebel Ali, the Gulf's busiest port. Abu Dhabi is also establishing the world's biggest industrial free-trade zone, which is expected to house the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... cent, to $25.41, and Commonwealth Bank dropping 81 cents, or 1.83 per cent, to $43.39. BHP said its Neptune facility in the Gulf of Mexico was undergoing alterations to reinforce structural components in the hull's pontoons. BHP advanced 23 cents, or ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... guilt-edged sword. According to a recently released McKinsey report, the current wave of soaring oil prices could see Arab Gulf states invest more than $3,500bn in offshore markets by 2020. Net foreign wealth of the six-member Gulf Co-operation Council ...

Race to the pump

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... a 10 per cent just in the last week resulting in crude oil hitting a new record over $US93 cents a barrel. A storm in the Gulf of Mexico has caused this latest spike, when as a consequence Mexico's state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, announced ...