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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... market volatility would create challenges for the company in the short term. BHP Billiton shares were up eight cents at $36.73. Oil and gas supplier Santos was off six cents at $13.05 after it told a parliamentary inquiry it would withdraw an application ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... week. Orica shares were down 65 cents, or 2.5 per cent, at $25.05, making it the worst performer on Monday on the ASX 200. Oil and gas explorer and producer AWE Ltd was the best performer among the top 200, rising 11.5 cents, or 8.5 per cent, to $1.475 ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... orders for September fell 8.2 per cent from the previous month, worse than the market's expectation for a 7.1 per cent fall. Oil prices inched lower in Asian trade, hurt by fears that the eurozone's debt crisis could cast a pall over global energy demand. ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... zero. Hero. All seemed well after the night of 27 October. Every finance minister and his dog literally burned the midnight oil to try and cobble together a comprehensive final solution to save Greece, and by extension, Europe and the world. This was ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... benefactors. I could just imagine how incensed those money authorities are at this Papandreou bombshell. After burning the midnight oil on the night of the 27th of October to hammer a deal, Papandreou does this? Deal, what deal? Forget the deal, everything's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... announced a deal to buy rival El Paso Corp for about $38 billion. And on Monday, Norway's Statoil announced the purchase of US oil company Brigham Exploration for $4.7 billion. The purchase will give the Norwegian energy giant access to shale oil fields ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... investors expected to fall - at 1230 AEDT for further direction. Losses were broad-based across all sectors after copper, oil and gold prices all fell in offshore trade on Thursday. The materials sector led the downward trend, falling 1.95 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... you're seeing materials and energy really leading the decline on our market today." Energy stocks fell 2.1 per cent despite oil prices rising for the fifth straight session in New York on Tuesday. Woodside Petroleum fell 55 cents, or 1.6 per cent to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... cent. Woodside Petroleum rose 68 cents, or 1.9 per cent, to $35.76, Santos advanced 32 cents, or 2.7 per cent, to $12.34 and Oil Search also gained two cents to $5.95. The biggest gainer on the ASX 100 was uranium explorer and miner Paladin Energy, which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... while Fortescue Metals gained 31 cents, or 7.2 per cent, to $4.56. Energy stocks were also 3.6 per cent firmer after crude oil prices rallied on Wednesday in parallel with stocks on the back of a significant, unexpected drop in US oil stockpiles. Uranium ...