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

Search Results

Showing 301 - 310 of 3996 results for "Dow 0.9 %"

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street posted solid gains following a big jump in US existing-home sales and a mixed bag of earnings reports from Boeing, McDonald's and others. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the June share price ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sharp falls on Wall Street on fresh worries about a Greek debt default as US President Barack Obama called on Greece to enact reforms. At 0815 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0720 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,938. US stocks finished a touch lower after a mixed round of company ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after a rally in petroleum-linked equities helped lift US stocks following mixed earnings and economic data. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 38 points at 5,937. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of negative offshore leads and lingering disappointment over trade figures out of China. "Offshore leads weren't great. In combination with that, there's a little bit of negativity from the China ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after losses on Wall Street. At 0644 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down eight points at 5,942. On Wall Street, stocks sagged ahead of the start of first-quarter-earnings ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
What lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Fund manager Epoch Investment Partners has blamed the relatively poor performance of active managers in recent years on the market distorting impact of quantitative easing and says talented stock pickers will come good again soon. S&P Dow Jones recently ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
First quarter numbers on Wall Street are out, but they're not something to write home about. Eat our dust. The Dow ended 0.3% down and the S&P 500 index up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the ...