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

Search Results

Showing 241 - 250 of 399 results for "Washington"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... Making news on Thursday, brick and tile maker Brickworks posted a 70 per cent fall in full year profit to $43.3 million. Washington H Soul Pattinson (WHSP), which owns 44.5 per cent of Brickworks plus a major stake on coal miner New Hope, posted a 60 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... Thursday, The Reserve Bank of Australia releases its annual report. In equities news, retailer Kathmandu, investment firm Washington H Soul Pattinson, and Brickworks release their full year results. NEW YORK - US stocks scored small gains as investors ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... from 2.56% on the day of the announcement to 1.88% by the end of 2011 and 1.70% last night. And as Steve Goldstein - Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal - wrote: "The CBO... says the budget deficit would shrink by nearly $500 billion in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... accused by the US of hiding hundreds of billions of dollars of transactions with Iran despite sanctions imposed by Washington. Tokyo rose 0.88 per cent, or 77.02 points, to 8,803.31, while Seoul closed flat, adding 0.92 points to 1,886.80. Sydney climbed ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... tomorrow after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the US's credit rating and issued a scathing critique of Washington's ability to deal with its economic woes." And here are some headlines from the Australian Financial Review on 5 August 2011 ...

US releases model FATCA agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... said FSC chief John Brogden, who has been pushing for decisive action from the Australian government. Brogden was in Washington DC earlier this month for meetings with US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials around issues with the draft ...

FSC focuses FATCA talk on govt agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Financial Services Council chief John Brogden is back in Washington DC arguing for a country specific exemption for Australian super funds to avoid compliance burdens associated with the contentious FATCA regime. Under draft Foreign Account Tax Compliance ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... called on the Gillard government to provide strong support for the wealth sector ahead of addressing an IRS hearing in Washington DC on the contentious FATCA regime. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regime aims to crackdown on tax avoidance ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... Best Leaders" by US News & World Report in 2005. The appointment of Kim continues the US hold on the presidency at the Washington-based institution. The vote was not without its controversy after the former Colombian finance minister Ocampo dropped out ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... Fed Chairman said so himself when he addressed the National Association for Business Economics Annual Conference in Washington last night. "A wide range of indicators suggests that the job market has been improving, which is a welcome development indeed," ...