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

Search Results

Showing 2081 - 2090 of 3292 results for "Above"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... points, or 0.48 per cent, to 2,831.02. In Europe, agency Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating by three notches to just above junk bond status. In local trading, gold major Newcrest Mining lost $1.05 or 4.07 per cent, to $24.73 after the gold price ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... the MSCI All-Country World Index - jumped by 2.3% overnight, the biggest one-day gain since 20 December. The euro hopped above US$1.25. The Australian dollar rose by 1.8% is heading back towards parity with the greenback. Commodity prices rose by 1.3% ...

Emerging managers add twice the alpha

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... year period of the study from 1993 to March 2012, the Emerging Managers proxy generated an excess CAGR of 3.66% pa over and above that of the Established Managers that returned 4.13% arithmetic excess. This translates into a 99.84% cumulative total out-performance." ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... one was back in early November last year when the Dow plunged by 3.2% on the 9th because Italian bond yields surged way above bailout territory - 7.48% -- Greece and Spain were about to hold elections and Frau Angie proposed allowing members to exit ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... Manufacturing Index (PMI) data at 1100 AEST and the private PMI reading at 1230 AEST. "If both of those numbers come in above 50 I'd expect that those weak resources stocks will turn around their performance quick smart," Mr McCarthy said. Wall Street's ...

Investor appetite for risk continues to flat-line

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... Financial Services. "We have also seen a demand for hybrid securities and it shows that people are now looking for income above and beyond capital growth," he said adding that the banks hybrid securities have been in high demand. With the Global Financial ...

ASIC sets sights on dark pools

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... pools as much as it's going to happen in the lit area." "What we're proposing is that you have to have price improvement above the mid point of the best bid and offer price in a dark pool in order to be able to trade. You have to go to the lit market ...

Direct super platform targets SMSF exodus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... AustralianSuper went live with the member direct service in November last year and allows deployment of 80% of your super balance above a minimum $10,000 in member-controlled investments, according to Webster. For super funds, the value is in retention ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... investors invest more. Sadly, the opposite is happening now. There's fear in the air and it's rising - the VIX index closed above 25 last week from a low of 14.26 barely two months ago. An ominous sign that markets may be getting what they're wishing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... going to take more than Facebook's initial public offering to push the stock market higher. Facebook shares rose 23 US cents above their $US38 offering price. It seemed as though everything else fell. The Dow Jones industrial average has been in a slump ...