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

Search Results

Showing 2061 - 2070 of 6315 results for "Stocks"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... weaker as an Australian dollar trading below 92.50 US cents encourages overseas investors to sell banking and resource stocks. Local shares are subdued, following a two per cent-plus plunge on Thursday, following the US Federal Reserve's plan to end ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 97.9 points, or 2.02 per cent, to 4,743.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks plunged, continuing a global markets rout spurred by the Federal Reserve's plans to cut stimulus and more bad news in China's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... supportive," Mr Lucas said. "Today will be a very interesting positioning day. The markets will enjoy punishing top-heavy stocks as the carry trade unwinds, profits are locked in... It will be a very tough day to be a bottom-up investor." In the mining ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... song...and it was a chorus of song sang blue. Bloomberg: "Bernanke Says Fed on Course to End Asset Buying in 2014" Reuters: "Stocks, bond prices drop as Fed points to reduced bond buying" Financial Times: "Bernanke sees 2014 end for QE3" Wall Street ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 47.2 points, or also 0.98 per cent, to 4,841.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen sharply after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed may begin to taper bond purchases later this ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... Goldman Sachs delivered an excellent recap: "The power of the press (and the nouveau press)! Following a very solid open, stocks maintain their early gains until FT Harding hits the tape with an article suggesting a signal from Bernanke this Wednesday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... have speculated the Fed would soon taper its $US85 billion ($A89.44 billion)-a-month bond-buying program. NEW YORK - US stocks rose decisively as investors bet the Federal Reserve will stay the course the next day on its economic stimulus policy. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Monday closed higher driven by renewed demand for banking stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 34.1 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4,825.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of US Fed meeting

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... Australian shares are weaker as concerns about US Federal Reserve bond buying dents sentiment, with banking and mining stocks both in negative territory. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said speculation about the American central bank's quantitative ...