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

Search Results

Showing 1321 - 1330 of 1540 results for "Manufacturing"

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after Wall St rose Friday on better-than-expected manufacturing and housing data. At 0650 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract rose 24 points to ...

We need a fairness test: ASIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Australian financial services, particularly the conflicts of interest within conglomerates that have both product manufacturing and distribution arms. "One of the issues at the moment is large conglomerate financial organisations that have product making ...

US houses continue to burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... end to the problems in the US economy and financial markets until the housing sector bottoms. The Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index rose to -16 percent in July from -17.1 percent in the previous month. Expectations were for a pickup to -15 percent. ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... jump in motor vehicles is expected to be transitory, if not reversed, in the coming months. In the year to June, manufacturing output is down by 0.6 percent - the third consecutive fall. Meanwhile, capacity utilisation increased slightly to 79.9 percent ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... All the same, the PPI report underscores the Fed's concern about rising inflationary pressures. The Empire State manufacturing index shows weak growth in the region continues, posting its fifth negative result over the past six months. The index rose ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... three years. Not so good news too across the North Sea. UK industrial production fell by 0.8 percent in May with manufacturing production falling by 0.5 percent. The UK is being plagued by the same problems plaguing the Eurozone, particularly Germany. ...

Schroders Greater Middle East fund raises $630m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... consists of roughly 220 million people and almost 60 per cent of whom are under the age of 30. "For these countries, manufacturing and services are more important to overall economic growth."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... predicting that the RBA will keep interest rates on hold. Also today, the AI Group - PwC Australian performance manufacturing index for June, the SAI Global/ACCI quarterly Survey of Investor Confidence and the RBA commodity price index for June will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... while the broader All Ordinaries lost 3.3 points to 5,476.3. NEW YORK - US stocks fell 0.3 per cent after a gauge of manufacturing in New York state contracted for the fourth time in five months, the oil price touched a record high and brokers downgraded ...

Vanguard appoints CFO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... finance for distribution, product and marketing in Australia. Didier has extensive experience in the distribution and manufacturing financial products and an in-depth knowledge of Australia's financial planning and financial service industries. In his ...