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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Australian shares have stayed in positive territory as hopes for a debt deal with Greece buoyed European shares and rising commodity prices boosted miners and energy companies. Energy stocks led the push higher, adding 0.7 per cent after news that the ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... economy and the slowing one in China. Then there are geopolitical uncertainties emanating from North Korea's new leader, Iran's nuclear adventure, and Nigeria's oil workers' strike - and political ones from Presidential elections in America, France and ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... the price of a barrel of oil by US$4 per barrel overnight. "...traders struggled to explain, citing renewed jitters over Iran, expectations of further monetary easing and possibly computer-driven trading." By 0713 hours, when the Dow slipped below zero ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... cent, as oil prices jumped. Oil prices were pushed higher by the announcement of US, British and Canadian sanctions against Iran's central bank and petrochemical sector. Merck fell nearly one per cent after the Justice Department said the firm would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
US stocks plunged on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sliding more than 300 points, as global stock markets were stung by fresh anxiety in the eurozone over Greece's bailout. The Dow fell 303.68 points (2.69 per cent) to close at 10,992.13. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... European common currency fell to 110.54 yen from 110.77 yen. Oil was mixed amid concerns over geopolitical tensions after Iran dispatched ships to the Red Sea on a patrol mission saying it would "display the capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran". ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports that people power threatens to spread to Iran, and Iran is the China of OPEC (the second biggest) when it comes to oil production. But... but... we've been through this ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... in excess reserve to fill the gap. The problem is that other major oil-producing nations like Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iran are also in the thick of protests for regime change. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. It's therefore ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... is the world's 15th largest exporter of the commodity. But there are similar uprisings now taking place in Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Algeria, Jordan and Djibouti - did I miss anyone? And so the D-word has come back in fashion. We're all doomed! That's if ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... more spare productive capacity than in 2008 and more Iraqi crude is on the way." And from one of the horses mouth himself, Iran's governor to OPEC Mohammad Ali Khatibi. "There are some temporary supply issues, but stocks are high and there is no permanent ...