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

Search Results

Showing 381 - 390 of 643 results for "dollar-A"

Macquarie beats expectations with interim results

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Macquarie Group posted half year net profits of $403 million this morning, a fall of 16 per cent on the prior half and 29 per cent on the prior year, but stronger than its previously issued guidance and market expectations. Macquarie Funds Group, the ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Australian super funds could be missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to add attractively priced, high yielding US property to their portfolios. So says Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, which has approximately US$4.5 billion in US property ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
There is really nothing much to report today. Wall Street rose... a bit. The US dollar depreciated... more than a bit. There were positive reports out overnight. The third quarter reporting season is good. More than 86 per cent of companies in the S&P ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Financial planners have a new tool on hand to work out how best to cater for their next generation of clients following a new wealth report that shows which countries are breeding more billionaires and how they are investing their money. For decades ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
When bad news... Those who've already done their weekend reading probably know what I'm going to write about. Yes, it's the US private non-farm payrolls report for September - the one that shows that jobs in America are still hard to come by. Overall ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! We're all hearing this cheer growing louder by the day whether in reference to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi or the currency markets internationally. In Delhi, Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
"War! huh-yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote this song in 1969 in protest of the Vietnam War. Its lyrics talk about the lost of lives and "tears to a thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
The world's major central banks are in danger of setting off a mercantilist race to the bottom as they attempt to gain competitiveness through artificial currency debasement, analysts say. After six years of abstinence, the Japanese Ministry of Finance ...