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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... stronger gains after November delivery crude settled up 77 US cents at $US59.41 per barrel last night on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Woodside Petroleum made $1.10 to $38.55, Santos gathered 14 cents to $10.69 and Oil Search advanced 12 cents to ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... stocks overnight. November delivery crude settled $US2.35 lower, or 3.9 per cent, at $US58.68 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange while in London, ICE Brent November crude slumped $US2.02, or 3.3 per cent, to $US58.36. "Resources have been hit ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
... base and precious metal prices overnight. Holiday-shortened trading on the US share market and the closure of the US mercantile market ahead of the July 4 public holiday will leave the local bourse without a strong direction in early trading. On the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
... and softening demand, traders said. Crude for June delivery settled up $US1.44 at $US72.13 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.In London, June Brent crude settled up $US1.36 at $US72.44 per barrel. NYMEX June gasoline settled up 12.28 US cents ...

Oil hits record high as Yukos told to stop sales

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2004
... after hitting a high of $US43.05 a barrel - topping peaks hit in early June and the highest price since the New York Mercantile Exchange launched the contract in 1983. London Brent crude settled up 99 cents to $US39.53 a barrel after hitting $US39.68 ...

Mercantile Mutual Insurance gets lowered ratings from S&P

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2004
Standard & Poor's has lowered its ratings on Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia). The ratings agency said it lowered its insurer financial strength and counterparty ratings on MMIA to A-plus from AA-minus and removed the ratings from CreditWatch ...

Market Wrap

... in future quarters. Crude oil for June delivery hit $41.56 a barrel on Friday, the highest price since the New York Mercantile Exchange began trading crude oil futures 21 years ago. Worries about the US gasoline supply continued to sustain the energy ...

S&P says places Mercantile Mutual on watch negative

... Services on Thursday said that it had placed its AA-minus counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia) on CreditWatch with negative implications (previously negative outlook). This followed the ...

QBE buys out ING stake in QBE Mercantile Mutual JV for $740 mln

Australia's QBE Insurance Group said today that it had agreed to purchase ING's 50% stake in the QBE Mercantile Mutual joint venture. The initial purchase price for the general insurance underwriting assets is $740 million with an additional $25 million ...

Former AMP superannuation agent jailed

... contributions from two of his former clients but failed to remit $339,526 to the relevant superannuation funds, including AMP, Mercantile Mutual and Host-Plus. Mr Moses resigned as an AMP agent in June 1994 but continued to receive the superannuation ...