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

Search Results

Showing 1081 - 1090 of 1409 results for "Fallen"

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... futures contract was two points lower at 4263 on a volume of 10,466 contracts. The two biggest miners both were down. Rio had fallen $1.42 or 2.43 per cent at $57.13 while rival BHP Billiton lost 50 cents at $37.26. But the four big banks gave support ...

Euro PE market shows value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... trend, the average European leverage buyout purchase price multiples for deals between $1.6 billion and $845 million had fallen from more than 10 times multiple in 2008 to just under that number in June this year. "In a couple of months time, whether ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 38.7 points, or 0.89 per cent, at 4287.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 37.6 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 4293.4. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract ...

Retirement adequacy beats market slump

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... standards," noted the report. Ironically, the study also found that the amount that people set aside for retirement has actually fallen following the round of income tax cuts which applied from July last year. "These boost the incomes - and hence pre-retirement ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares had fallen from nearly 14 per cent in December 2007 to seven per cent at the end of June 2009. International direct share investment ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... interest rates in July 2008 - and only by a token 25 bps - from 8.25 per cent to 8 per cent and after real GDP had already fallen for two consecutive quarters. To be fair, the RBNZ was overly worried about rising inflation back then. But it soon painfully ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... largest fall since 1946 and the 15th consecutive month of year-on-year decline. There's more, capacity utilisation has fallen to a record low of 68 per cent during the month. And still there's more. The US appears to be headed for deflation. Annual headline ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 56.6 points, or 1.49 per cent, at 3737.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 52.6 points, or 1.39 per cent, to 3738 points. NEW YORK - US stocks posted a broad rally on the back of a stronger ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 21.8 points, or 0.57 per cent, at 3772.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 18 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 3772.6 points. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.7 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 3,762.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 6.7 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 3,759.3 points. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 1201 AEST, the September share price ...