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

Search Results

Showing 4741 - 4750 of 8426 results for "Big"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher after European stock markets rebounded as investors cheered positive company earnings and reacted to news of thousands of job cuts at Swiss bank UBS, despite a lull in trading caused by the monster US storm ...

Bank dividends under threat

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The size of the dividends shareholders have become used to from Australia's big-four banks may face further pressure amid a weaker economy and further exposure to bad debt, according to Five Oceans Asset Management's Chris Selth. Strong yields have ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The financial services and insurance industries contribute more to percentage growth in the Australian economy than mining and natural resources, according to CommSec's Craig James. Sensing that delegates at the annual Association of Financial Advisers ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

Value vs price in Asian debt

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... piles in - and the pool of money is absolutely massive. "But when someone decides that they don't like it, the door is not big enough for everyone to get out. This creates a lot of volatility. But it also creates a lot of opportunity." Habel said that ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... among market analysts about whether ANZ would be able to sustain the revenue performance of its offshore ventures. The other big retail banks were mixed - CBA was steady $57.08, NAB was up nine cents at $25.99 and Westpac was steady at $25.27. The spot ...

SFG appoints head of B2B business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... ASGARD Platforms. SFG Australia's managing director, Tony Fenning, said: "With the consolidation of dealer groups into the big banks, insurance and fund companies over recent years, we anticipate good demand for a pre-eminent B2B service provider which ...

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... size start ups, said Frank Jiang, vice director of the Taicang Bureau of Commerce and Investments. Often these are companies big on intellectual property and technology, but small enough that labour costs are not everything. "They want to encourage this ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... euro fell to $US1.2947 from $US1.2978 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mixed as the effect of big Wall Street losses - sparked by weak reports and forecasts from top US companies - was offset by an improvement in Chinese ...