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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... plummeting after the International Energy Agency announced a drawdown of strategic petroleum stocks to drive down soaring oil prices. ExxonMobil was down 2.3 per cent for the week, while Chevron was down 1.3 per cent. Google stock took a beating after ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... 59.67 points, or 0.49 per cent, to close at 12,050.00 points, with Dow components ExxonMobil and Chevron falling heavily after oil prices dropped sharply. The International Energy Agency's decided to release 60 million barrels of crude from its members ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... received a mostly negative lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed lower and copper prices settled weaker. But oil, gold and silver prices ended firmer. At 0743 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was down 19 points at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... Monday's sharp drops and the energy sector after BP struck a deal to settle potential claims linked to the US Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares rose 81.92 points, or 1.44 per cent, to 5,775.31 points. In Frankfurt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... stock market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold, silver and oil prices settled firmer. But copper and prices finished lower. At 0800 AEST, the September share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... BHP Billiton up three cents at $41.98, Rio Tinto up 38 cents to $78.20, but energy giant Woodside was 27 cents at $40.53. Oil refiner Caltex Australia was one of the worst performers after it said it expects first half 2011 profit to fall to $100 to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... lead from weekend offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold and silver prices settled firmer. But copper and oil prices finished lower. At 0739 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up three points at 4,482 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... got stronger-than-expected reads on jobless claims and on the housing market." On the local bourse on Friday at 1028 AEST, oil and gas producer Santos was five cents higher at $13.64 over a fight with US-based Magellan Petroleum on a $15 million deposit ...

Credit Suisse global appointments

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... head of commodities in August this year. His previous experience includes head of trading and supply at LITASCO for Russian oil company, Lukoil. In the London-based role, Hawkins will develop the bank's commodities business and report to co-heads of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... appeared on track for a seventh straight weekly loss. The dollar jumped against the euro amid eurozone risk concerns and crude oil prices plunged 4.6 per cent in New York. Bond prices leapt as investors sought safer assets. The yield on the 10-year US ...