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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market is likely to open in the red for a second day running, following another poor performance on Wall Street, oil prices climbed and base metals were softer. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... billion one with Japan. This result in tandem with President George Bush's call for an extra US$145 billion for the war in Iraq is likely to place a significant strain on the US economy beyond anything that it has experienced in the past.

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... largest tobacco firms. Also on the list is the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), recently vilified over the oil for food scandal in Iraq and poor corporate governance standards, as well as several uranium mining and nuclear power generation companies. ACT ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
... explorer Oil Search. This is not good news for Australians who have faced a tripling of oil prices since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The latest figures from the Department of Education, Science and Training showed a 9.7 percent decrease in number of ...

Daily economic update

... reduced to 2.25 per cent of GDP in three years time. This seems unlikely given the rise in defense spending, homeland security, Iraq, other spending on social services. The US needs an inflow of around US$2 billion plus daily of foreign capital to fund ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2006
... average and Standard & Poor's 500 stock index posted their biggest point declines since March 24, 2003, soon after the war in Iraq began. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 213.32 points, or 1.96 per cent, at 10,667.39. The Standard & Poor's 500. ...

Passenger traffic boost for Melbourne Airport

... travellers is very timely as the overseas tourist industry is making a speedy recovery from the slump it experienced due to the Iraq war and the SARS virus. Melbourne Airport experienced a rise of 43 per cent and 23 per cent in the last two quarters ...

Emerging countries fuel oil demand as world runs out of oil

... at a maximum capacity at approximately 88 million bpd. Furthermore the world's main oil producing countries Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran Kuwait and UAE are the most volatile countries in the world. In addition Mr Pain said "the mother of all oilfields Ghawar ...

The rise of the Australian bourse to continue, analysts

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2004
... strategist Eric Betts said the post-profit season\'s bounce was made easier by coming after lows sustained in the aftermath of the Iraq war and was also fuelled by a strong domestic economic climate. \"We still think the sharemarket can make further ...

US: New York oil hits all-time high of $US43.85

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
New York\'s main crude oil contract shot to an all-time high on Friday night as a financial crisis at Russian oil titan Yukos unleashed a fresh wave of speculative buying. New York\'s benchmark contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September ...