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

Search Results

Showing 3031 - 3040 of 3556 results for "October 27"

Investors back AUI property proposal

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
Investors in three of the five Australian Unity Investments property vehicles have voted 'yes' to the firm's proposal to staple five property syndicates to establish a $400 million retail property fund. A recent media report claimed that AUI had failed ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
And the race is on -- the race to zero interest rates. The way major central banks are going, benchmark target rates could hit the big fat 0 before Easter 2009. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia's 100 basis point interest rate reduction early ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight, although weaker metals prices could limit gains from the miners. At 0802 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open weaker, after US and European stocks plunged on a declaration that the US officially is in recession, before the focus at home turns to the next interest rate cut, expected later today. At 0800 AEDT on ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Today we welcome the last of the 'ber' months - December. Chances are this month will go the way of the other three 'bers' that preceded it as fresh data proceeds to tell the story of global economic weakness and financial market uncertainty. While ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Australian markets have received no lead from Wall Street, closed as US markets were for Thanksgiving. At 0746 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, however, the December Share Price Index futures contract was up 32 points at 3,600. In economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger after European and US markets rallied on the back of a US government promise to protect banking giant Citigroup and the release of a STG20 billion ($A47.05 billion) economic stimulus package in ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... consumer prices have hammered the final nail in the inflation coffin. US headline CPI dropped by a full percentage point in October - the biggest drop in 61 years - after a flat September reading. This took the annual rate of inflation down to 3.9 per ...

IRESS signs Elston Partners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
IRESS Market Technology has signed a deal to be the sole provider of core client and investment management technology to investment firm Elston Partners. Under the arrangement, Elston Partners will be using IRESS (market data), IOS (trading and order ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after a late surge left Wall Street higher, recovering from being around two per cent down in late afternoon trading. At 0810 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures ...