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

Search Results

Showing 4731 - 4740 of 5515 results for "September 2005"

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Yesterday's rise in interest rates takes the total to five rate rises since 2002, totalling 2 per cent, and the fourth since the last election when Prime Minister Howard promised to keep rates low. As a consequence the average household will be paying ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open firmer following a strong Wall Street rise. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 13 points at 5,456. Today, News Corp releases its first quarter results ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to increase interest the cash rate by 0.25 basis points to 6.25 per cent saying that it took note of the likely economic effects of the drought on farm and national income. The RBA said that domestic demand ...

ASIC cautions over rate rise advertising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
With the recent interest rate rise and another imminent, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cautioned lenders over advertising and promotional material which may not accurately reflect a rate rise. Already home loan lenders ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The ANZ job series released yesterday showed the number of major newspaper and internet job ads rose by 5.8 per cent in October to an average of more than 195,000 per week, 25.3 per cent higher a year ago. The earlier September increase of 0.3 per cent ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger, following a firm rally in global markets and yesterday's push to record highs. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0738 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 59 points at 5,490. Today ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Pressure will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...