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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... trepidation around deals of that size." Rival Rio Tinto was up 44 cents at $81.39. Energy stocks were also lower after the price of oil fell due to concerns the world's debt problems would curb demand. Woodside was down 59 cents at $39.45, Santos had ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... fees raised its net income above analysts' expectations. ConocoPhillips rose 1.6 per cent after the country's third-largest oil company said it would split in two. One company will be an oil producer, and the other a refinery. Investors preferred two ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... stock was up 55 cents, or 3.86 per cent, at $14.81. Mr Muller said there were some winners in the resources sector with steel, oil and gold stocks outperforming. "The steel sector is recovering on the back of the sell off on that sector in the lead up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... 37.22 points or 0.37 per cent to 9,963.14, while the Topix index gained 3.34 points, or 0.39 per cent, to 860.53. Gains in oil-linked shares offset exporter losses. Shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai surged after China released data showing the mainland ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... market when trade commences. "Our market's going to struggle because we've had a negative lead in from overseas (and) the oil price is down," CommSec chief economist Craig James said. The drop will come courtesy of disappointing US jobs figures which ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... overnight: the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P500 closed lower, but the NASDAQ managed a small gain. Major commodities such as oil, gold and copper settled higher. Making news on Wednesday, Telstra was up one cent at $2.95 after the telco announced ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... view that, "The slower pace of the recovery reflects in part factors that are likely to be temporary," due to higher food and oil prices earlier in the year and the disruptions to supply-chains resulting from Japan's 11 March calamity. The latest instalment ...

I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... statement that, "The slower pace of the recovery reflects in part factors that are likely to be temporary," due to higher food and oil prices earlier in the year and the disruptions to supply-chains resulting from Japan's 11 March calamity. This is confirmed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... during the morning. Overnight, Wall Street extended gains to a third straight day, while futures contract prices for gold, oil and copper also settled firmer. Meanwhile, a positive vote in the Greek parliament on austerity measures designed to avoid ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... in part by rolling over a large portion of Greece's debt into 30-year bonds. Energy stocks jumped along with a rebound in oil prices, with ExxonMobil rising 2.1 per cent and Chevron gaining 1.4 per cent after the world's two major oil benchmarks -- West ...