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

Search Results

Showing 371 - 380 of 820 results for "China A"

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Australia is home to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
Who went away in May? The month when we're supposed to sell and go away is over but it appears that it's the sellers that went away instead. Yes, Virginia, May's closing stats show that most major equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
Yeah baby, let's! Seen the CBOE VIX index lately? Yes, that one - the one financial markets look at the gauge the level of investors' fear. It was pegged at 11.36 at the close of last week's activity - the lowest since the ides (15th) of March 2013. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained despite continuing concern over escalating tension in Ukraine and poor industrial data from China. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up nine ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
The share market has opened slightly lower despite a strong lead from Wall Street and a better than expected profit from ANZ. ANZ beat market expectations with a record half year cash profit of $3.5 billion, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit ...

Westpac to open branch in Shanghai

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Westpac has received approval to set-up a sub-branch in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ), becoming one of the first foreign banks to take advantage of the pilot program. The FTZ spans 28.78 square kilometres, and grants financial institutions exemptions ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Sanctions? You call that sanctions? Putin must be LOL-in' after hearing the news that Europe has imposed "sanctions" by freezing the assets of 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The verdict is in, Crimeans have decided... what now? Surprise of surprises Virginia! Exit polls following Sunday's Crimean referendum showed that 93% of voters voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe ...