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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... between 100.01 US cents and 101.24 US cents. Oil prices are trading up around $US100 a barrel as anti-government clashes in Libya intensify with rebels controlling much of the eastern part of the country. Libya is the world's 15th largest exporter of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4, while the broader All ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... bursts of nerve attacks along the way proved few, short and shallow. Nothing seemed able shake market confidence. Until Libya's 42-year ruling strongman -- Moammar Qaddafi - or is it Gaddafi? Kadhafi? Gadhafi? Qadhafi? - entered stage left and began ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian dollar was slightly lower as political uncertainty in Libya continues to sour market sentiment and drive commodities currencies lower. At 0700 AEDT on Thursday, the local unit was trading at 100.16 US cents, down from Wednesday's close ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... short term, given the bad news coming from the Middle East and North Africa. Worries about increasingly violent unrest in Libya saw the Dow Jones industrial average lose 178.46 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 12,212.79, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... likely to fall after equity markets around the world slumped as investors worried about the increasingly violent unrest in Libya. On the ASX 24 at 0701 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was 44 points lower at 4,802. In economics news ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Australian share market was weaker at noon with the market responding to unrest in Libya and rising oil prices. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 21.7 points at 4,877, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 23.5 points lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... overnight for the President's Day public holiday. LONDON - European equities and the euro fell on Monday, as violent unrest in Libya was only partially offset by positive European economic news, dealers said. London's FTSE 100 index of top shares fell ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. People power fever is spreading across the deserts of Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya and Yemen and is now threatening to head eastwards into Asia. The Age website reports that, "CHINA has cracked down on activists ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... this is way better than the "if you can't stop 'em, beat and shoot 'em" tactic employed by the governments of Bahrain and Libya on their protesting people. Wall Street activity overnight was just like a repeat of the trading action yesterday - and over ...