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Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... inventories and spare production capacity would bring Brent oil down to US$105 a barrel. Brent oil -- as different from West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude - reached a closing high of US$125.89 a barrel. So where now for equity markets? Yes, exactamondo! ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... semiconductor company would benefit from higher sales of mobile phones. Chip stocks were still a big focus for investors since Texas Instruments Inc said Monday it would pay $US6.5 billion ($A6.3 billion) in cash for National Semiconductor Corp. Materials ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... growth at service companies last month but at a slower rate than analysts were expecting. Technology companies climbed after Texas Instruments Inc said it planned to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in cash. National Semiconductor soared 71 ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... same magnitude as that of Japan's. Commodity prices - including safe-havens gold and silver - also fell. Even oil. West Texas crude is now trading below US$100 a barrel even as news reports tell of rising tensions in Bahrain. So much so that it wouldn't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... billion) to the US Treasury Tuesday thanks to the sale of its equity stake in US rival MetLife. Electronics manufacturer Texas Instruments plunged 3.1 per cent after lowering forecasts for the 2011 first quarter. The bond market firmed. The yield on ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... with massive upside price risk," said Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics, an energy advisory firm in Austin, Texas. "The worst is probably not over for these crude oil markets."" But not today, investors love Wall Street more today than ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... barrel some analysts predicted just a week ago? Ah... but here's the rub, there are two benchmarks for oil prices - West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent Crude (BREN). WTI has not even closed at US$100 - ending last Friday's trade at US$95.98 a barrel ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... as investors absorbed disturbing new data from the US and disappointing results on Monday from corporate giants IBM and Texas Instruments. The FTSE 100 index closed down 8.82 points, or 0.17 per cent, at 5,139.46 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX 30 closed ...

Hastings consortium buys $290m stake in US infra

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... Development L.P (FLNG), which owns and operated a liquefied natural gas receiving and regasification terminal on the Gulf Coast of Texas near Houston. The consortium includes Hastings Funds Management's unlisted Australian funds, the Utilities Trust ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... The news coming a day after a Bank of America Merrill Lynch's downgrade of eight microchip companies, including Intel and Texas Instruments, kept the market jittery. European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet's warning that "it is too early ...