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Profits fly high on planes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... sits on IGAF's investment board, ensuring a keen analytical eye scrutinizes every deal. He told Financial Standard that high oil prices were not necessarily more risky for airlines than other industries as they usually hit across the board - and what ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... months ago - in January, February, March and April -- when the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and North Africa sent oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought when natural calamities in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other Brazil ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... points, or 0.6 per cent, to 1,329.47. The Nasdaq fell 46.16, or 1.6 per cent, to 2,782.31. Commodity prices were mostly lower. Oil prices fell $2.28 to settle at $US97.37 a barrel Monday as worries eased that Mississippi River flooding could disrupt ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... were in negative territory in early trade, with Westpac losing more than three per cent as the stock went ex-dividend. Crude oil prices rose for the second day, running in choppy trade. In equities news, the Malaysian government has released the objectives ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... 4,702. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed at a seven-week low after a slump in commodity prices, particularly oil and copper, weighed on the resources sector. In the US overnight, a small recovery took place in defensive stocks such as commodities ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... go..." -Ricky Nelson Why oh why does Wall Street continue to insist that rising commodity prices - particularly that of crude oil - is good for its health? Perhaps it's because today's Friday the 13th. Perhaps it's because of the current alignment of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... $6.33 and OZ Minerals shed 4.5 cents, or 3.04 per cent, at $1.435. Energy stocks were substantially lower, too, after crude oil futures fell 4.9 per cent, below $US100 a barrel because crude oil inventories in the US have grown much more than expected ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Rising inflation. Sagging earnings. Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... maturing on August 12, 2011. In equities news, Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications posts annual results, and AMP Ltd and Roc Oil Company Ltd hold annual general meetings. The NSW Supreme Court is expected to hand down its judgement in the case between ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Nasdaq Composite rose 28.64 points (1.01 per cent) to 2,871.89. Commodities including precious metals, industrial metals and oil rose overnight. "The risk appetite continues to improve from what we saw last week," Mr Potter told AAP. "It's opened a bit ...