Business PM - BP axes staff

Wednesday November 20, 2013
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BP axes staff
Madeleine Heffernan 3:54PM | At least 300 people are set to lose their jobs as global energy giant BP cuts costs at its Australian business.

WorleyParsons leads bourse's fall
Vesna Poljak 5:11PM | A profit downgrade by WorleyParsons sent Australian shares lower and offset the impact of supportive comments by Fed chair Ben Bernanke.

Myer uninterested in Westfield online mall
Eli Greenblat 4:43PM | The nation's biggest department store Myer has refused to sign up to a new online mall set up by Westfield.

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Comment & Analysis
Qantas chief Alan Joyce can't say that the relentless airline price and capacity war in which it has engaged with Virgin will push the airline into a loss in the 2014 year, but nor can he say that it won't.
Elizabeth Knight
Watch out William Shakespeare, Mark McIvor is here to seize the poetical crown.
Carolyn Cummins
As more and more young people face being locked out of the housing market by soaring prices, it's time to acknowledge the obvious.!
Clancy Yeates
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Markets
Around the Markets at 5:17PM EST, 20 Nov 2013
Dow Jones 15967.03 – 8.99 – 0.06%
Nasdaq 3931.553 + 0.00 + 0.00%
Hang Seng 23709.91 + 52.10 + 0.22%
NZ 50 4840.364 – 22.14 – 0.46%
CAC 4272.29 + 0.00 + 0.00%

End of day figures for Dow Jones and Nasdaq
All others figures are intraday (20 min delay)

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