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

Search Results

Showing 3171 - 3180 of 6315 results for "Stocks"

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... indices tumbled to an eight-week low. NEW YORK - Technology company troubles and renewed concerns about Europe's debt dragged stocks lower for a second day. The arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund is expected to make solving the problems ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... more than one per cent lower following a weak result in the US on Friday night and as Westpac shares went ex-dividend. US stocks ended the week mired in red on Friday as investors shrugged off US inflation and consumer confidence reports and weighed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... results. The Institute of Actuaries of Australia holds its Flood Resilience Seminar for 2011 in Sydney. On Friday, Australian stocks closed slightly higher, after spending much of the session lower, but investors remained cautious. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... particularly oil and copper, weighed on the resources sector. In the US overnight, a small recovery took place in defensive stocks such as commodities and consumer staples, amid concerns about high fuel prices eroding consumer spending and cutting into ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
The Australian share market was firmly in the red at noon as resources stocks fell following a drop in commodity prices and a weak lead from Wall Street. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 71.2 points, or 1.49 per cent, at 4,709 points ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... write something... anything! But even them fin jornoes do not agree on who did what to Wall Street. Bloomberg thinks "U.S. Stocks Decline as Commodities Tumble Amid Stronger Dollar". For the Australian Financial Review it's, " Oil slides taking A$ and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... to a broad stock sell-off on Wall Street on Wednesday that pulled the Dow Jones industrial average down by 130 points. Stocks fell broadly, with energy and materials companies suffering the worst declines. The Dow lost one per cent to close at 12,630.03. ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... making any resulting gains and losses subject to capital gains tax. The removal of the exception for super funds trading stocks, primarily shares, units in a trust and land, comes into effect immediately. "One big change highlighted in the federal budget ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Potter said. US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points (0.60 per cent) at 12,760.36 in closing trade. The broader S&P ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... NEW YORK - US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points (0.60 per cent) at 12,760.36 in closing trade. The broader S&P 500 ...