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

Search Results

Showing 221 - 230 of 555 results for "Korea"

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... about 5% higher than the OECD average. Members of the OECD include the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Germany, Korea and Japan among 28 other countries. Head of Charter Hall direct property, Richard Stacker, said at a recent media briefing ...

Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... financial services industry is unprepared for a "bonanza" arising from free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea, according to Finsia research. Multiple factors including rapid market growth (between 2.5% and 7% over the next few decades) ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Sydney again." QIC chief economist Matthew Peter told Financial Standard that the different FTAs "make it easier for China, Korea and Japan to invest in Australia. "Up until now, financial services businesses in Australia could not open their own businesses ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a touch lower, as gains on Wall Street offset losses in the local market on Thursday. At 0648 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks lost ground overnight. At 0651 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... links with the US Federal Reserve are sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the fall in oil prices because they are both importers of commodities. But he said that, overall, Standard ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... categories of the consumer basket. However, in economies in which output gaps are currently negative (Australia, Japan, Korea, Thailand), policymakers may need to act to prevent a persistent decline in inflation expectations," the IMF outlook said. The ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... Australia's in trouble too and Asia and commodities and commodity exporting countries and China's main trading partners - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US, Australia, Germany. Not so according to the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department division chief, Steven ...

Australia missing out on $34.5bn tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... creating and exploiting digital markets. Only 2.3% of retail sales are online, compared to 10% in the UK and 13% in South Korea. The country's enterprises are inconsistent in their application of digital technologies to drive efficiencies. While Australia ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The rise of affluent Chinese "millennials" is driving changes in the emerging-market investment space, according to AB. China has an estimated 300 million people born between 1980 and 2000, and this generation is distinct from those previous in that ...