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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... banks such as the ANZ have investors concerned that the situation could be more widely spread." Mr Lewis said that commodities and energy stocks were performing well to limit losses in the market following the oil price reaching a two year high overnight. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... points and the Nasdaq down a bit." He said strong base metals and oil prices were helping the resource companies. "The commodities were a little bit stronger, oil and copper were reasonably strong again," said Mr Foulsham. ANZ had recovered a little ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after commodities including gold, oil and copper advanced overnight. Gains may be limited after US stocks declined on comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that a recession is possible. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... that nickel is up over three per cent, zinc two per cent... these are all very strong rises. "When you get rises in commodities of over two per cent, that's obviously going to be a big fuel injection to the major resource stocks that we've got here. ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... against global inflation. The commodity price surge of which the gold rush is just part may also be due investors seeing commodities as currencies in their own right too as the value of the US dollar falls, according to a March 20 IMF Analysis report. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... we're really following in their wake," Nomura Australia equity markets specialist Eric Betts said. Mr Betts said lower commodities prices that weighed on US markets would have been even more damaging to the local bourse. "We're heavily weighted to resources," ...

Superfund Group pans for Australian gold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... Superfund Group, is extending its operations down under to tap into the local demand for alternative investments and commodities. "It could not be better timing for us to expand our product offering to Australia given the string local appetite for gold ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... gold futures lost six per cent, marking their biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly two years, in a broad-based commodities retreat. At 0735 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 100 points lower at 5195. Local ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... agricultural markets have been growing steadily since 2001 and accelerated in 2007 with prices for food, agricultural commodities, farmland and related products and services all increasing. The surge in agricultural prices in 2007 alone contributed to ...

Double digit days are over

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... mix of growth assets expensive assets, is a way around it," he said. Emerging markets and the ongoing bull run of commodities have also been flagged as good investment oases amidst current volatility. "I think there's a lot of potential in the emerging ...