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The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... in US transport stocks. There were sighs of relief all around and a dip in oil prices as Hurricane Dean missed the Mexican Gulf Oil installations. Just before Wall Street opened on Friday the US Federal Reserve slashed its discount rate to banks and ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... stocks, with BHP Billiton shedding 90 cents to $27.03 despite reporting that it had acquired an oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico. Rival miner Rio Tinto slumped $2.71 cents to $77.75. US crude oil futures ended more than a dollar lower on ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... Prudhoe Bay and the announcement last week by Chevron that the high-tech success of record deep sea drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico might add 50 per cent to total US reserves. Other good news on the petroleum front comes from Scottish company ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... agricultural sector. US oil exploration company Chevron has just announced that, as a result of two years of drilling off the Gulf of Mexico, it has possibly found the largest new oil field in a generation. The find has been made at record depths and ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... following a sharp decline in oil prices after a tropical storm lost strength and changed course away from US oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, relieving concerns about inflation and the outlook for corporate profits. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... all ordinaries rose 34.1 points to 4997.1 points. NEW YORK - US blue-chip shares fell on Friday as a storm threatening the Gulf of Mexico pushed crude oil prices up, prompting investors to unload industrial stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... Futuris Group and Investa Property Group report their annual results, Coca-Cola Amatil reports its first half result and Gulf Resources makes its debut on the Australian Stock Exchange. On the economic front, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
... overnight following comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, that Iran would disrupt oil shipments in the Gulf in response to any US action against its nuclear program. The Gulf carries around 20 per cent of the world's oil supply. ...

Unclaimed super a cash cow for ERFs

... on APRA to review the sector and set strict regulatory boundaries. Heron Partnership's Wendy Barton said there is a huge gulf in the returns offered by market leader, AUSfund, and the wider ERF market. "Never before in our product assessments have we ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

... the surge in crude oil during the month in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita which disrupted production in the Gulf of Mexico. Given the slowing domestic labour market, this week's various updates on Australian wages would assume significance ...