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

Search Results

Showing 291 - 300 of 815 results for "China A"

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Here we go again folks, the China is kaput story is back in the headlines again. What went up last week - some through to yesterday - are back down again all because, they say, financial markets didn't like what they saw in the China's trade data where ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
It could be because of China's one-week hiatus or the Fed's decision to maintain policy settings where they are or the resurgence in equity and commodity markets or all of the above but it seems the times. they're not a-changin'. This, at least, could ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Australians have recorded the fourth highest number of cashless transactions per capita worldwide according to the latest report from Capgemini. The consulting and outsourcing firm's annual World Payments Report suggests cashless payments are forecasted ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement finalised in Atlanta this week will provide a platform for multilateral trade with major economies in the Pacific Rim, creating new opportunities for Australian financial services companies. The TTP Agreement ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

ASX to set up shop in Hong Kong

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
ASX will open a local office in Hong Kong's financial district to better service its customer base in the Asian region. The office will open on 1 October and will be headed by Asian business development manager James Keeley. The move coincides with ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
"Not happy, Jan!" This was Wall Street's immediate verdict on the Fed's disclosure of its non-decision following the much-awaited and much speculated 16-17 September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 index declined by 1.6%; the Dow by 1.7%; Nasdaq by 1.4% ...

AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... However, the RE believes there are structural features related to the fund's substantial exposure to investments in the China A-share market that contribute to the discount." AMP Capital chairman Stephen Dunne explained why the fund manager chose not ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
"You say it best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...