Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 39 results for "Middle Eastern"

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Rival Wesfarmers, which owns Coles supermarkets, was up one cent at $33.08. Also in news, Leighton Holdings Ltd's Middle Eastern subsidiary, Al Habtoor Leighton, said it may need a cash injection from its parent firm if ongoing legacy projects are not ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... Report. "The market obviously fell very heavily at the beginning of the month on the Japanese nuclear crisis and the Middle Eastern tensions and both of those issues, while not completely resolved, have settled down," Mr Saffer said. "So, the last few ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... showed prices rose at their fastest pace in 27 months in February fuelled in part by rising world food prices and Middle Eastern turmoil pushing up energy costs. Markets were partly responding to Wall Street, where sentiment was dented by comments from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... Chinese data showing that January inflation came in at 4.9 per cent, while oil rose as unrest flared in several Middle Eastern states. Chinese annualised inflation was lower than expected, but concerns remained that it was still high, especially given ...

Perennial ramps up international business strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... Perennial Investment Partners has appointed an international business development manager to gain more UK, US and Middle Eastern clients. Michael Crivelli, executive chair at Perennial, said a number of the fund manager's boutique strategies are highly ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... were flashing red again with geo-political risk on reports that Lebanon fired at Israeli warplanes. So what if two Middle Eastern countries blow each other to smithereens? Just like the European debt crisis is extrapolated to a double dip in the global ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro - their value getting an extra kick from speculators piling ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... of 14,164.53 points on 9 October 2007. This time it was different. Surplus savings from Asian and oil-producing Middle Eastern countries are supporting keeping interest rates down and low for spendthrift Americans. But as we now learned, this all ended ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... US$455,000,000,000. America would need a heck lot of financing to stay afloat and the rest of the world (hello China! Asian and Middle Eastern countries...hello) would need to be willing to send their surpluses America's way. While these surplus countries ...

Macquarie enters China JV

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... trust company joint venture in mainland China - the second JV in less than a week following its recent deal with Middle Eastern investment bank, Gulf Finance House. The Chinese JV, which will be called Sino-Australian International Trust Company, will ...