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

Search Results

Showing 321 - 330 of 376 results for "bubble"

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... sector just reinforce the picture that agribusiness is likely to be heading into a structural upswing rather than just price bubble, painting an even brighter outlook for investors.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... grossly over-done," he said. "We have not seen yields of this dimension since the early 1990s and it could well continue to bubble along until we have something firm from Centro in April." At 1216 AEDT, ANZ Bank had lost 41 cents, or 1.86 per cent, to ...

International value funds back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... of their international value funds at the end of last year. Tweedy, Browne, cited the continuing fallout from the credit bubble burst last August as the catalyst in the firm's decision to reopen their fund. Third Avenue's international value fund, with ...

Move over BRICs, Middle East is coming

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
The long-term growth potential in BRIC economies remains high yet will stabilise as China exhibits 'bubble' characteristics, but if the Middle East continues to liberalise it will offer even bigger potential. Speaking at the FPA conference last week ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... comments come only two weeks after Schroder's head of Australian equities likened the current resources boom to the 1980s bubble and warned investors to diversify as a result. Portfolio Partners has also launched a new Interest Rate Opportunity Fund ...

Equities without borders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... Australian investors not to get carried away with resources stocks, comparing them to the previous tech boom and Japan's 1980s bubble. "There's absolutely no doubt they've got a ton of momentum. The question is, is it going to continue?" He cited BHP's ...

Not made in China

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
... portfolio manager of the Magellan Global Fund notes there is currently an excess of manufacturing capacity and "somewhat of a bubble in the Chinese economy," with a likely slowdown coming. While a slowing US economy is already impacting China's export ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... been doing alright," Mr Heffernan said. "Maybe that's having a impact on BHP and Rio, now that all the merger froth and bubble seems to be evaporating a little bit. "On the basis of weak commodity prices last night and no positive news out of the US ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... Metal Exchange. NEW YORK - The S&P 500 index climbed to a record on Friday, surpassing levels reached during the Internet bubble, as General Electric Co increased a stock-buyback plan and data showed improving consumer sentiment. The Standard & Poor's ...

Clean, green profit machines

... years is also happening overseas. "There's been commentary from Europe in particular that environmental stocks are at a 'bubble' stage," he said. This means that while the record highs are a cause for celebration, investors should brace for the time ...