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

Search Results

Showing 31 - 40 of 155 results for "Market Index"

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... rallied by 11.9% this year to date, more than offsetting last year's 9.1% decline. Similarly, the MSCI emerging market index is up 9.1%, reversing the 7.5% loss recorded in 2018. The sixty-four million dollar question is does the equity rally have ...

ASIC dismisses Royal Commission insider trading reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... The following day, the banks' share prices were up significantly. Westpac jumped 7% on a day when the total share market index was only up 2%. ASIC's finding is in response to suggestions from the Labor party that the increase in banking share prices ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... May, to 15% in August, and to 20% in November this year. This would lift China's weighting in the MSCI Emerging Market Index from around 0.7% today to 3.3%. This would get money flowing into China's stockmarket. Indexed funds, exchange-traded ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Two tweets from the US President (only because it couldn't fit in one) were all it took to send China's stocks soaring and turn its market technically from a bear to a bull. China's Shanghai Composite Index spiked 5.6% yesterday after US ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... the Asian emerging market space - the ones that I track - is the Philippines. The country's benchmark equity market index dropped 12.8% in 2018 at the same time that the peso depreciated by 5.1% versus the greenback over the same period. Normally ...

Fund managers embrace China exposure: Zenith

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... increased broker research and greater liquidity. "As more China A-Shares are introduced, the composition of the emerging market index will change with increased exposure to sectors such as financials, industrials and real estate. "This will give rise ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... said. As of 27 November 2018, about 14% of the 364 California-headquartered constituents of the MSCI USA Investable Market Index recorded had all male boards. Thwing Eastman said Silicon Valley potentially has the biggest hurdle in meeting the 2019 deadline ...

Family office invests in absolute return fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... heights," he said. CA8 one year returns were down 67.5% as compared to the ASX 200 on September 21, according to Market Index.

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% from the previous day's close of 6244. The stock market index has since come down slightly but is holding its gains, at 6260 as of 2.14pm. The Aussie dollar was up 0.46% to 73 cents. ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... the announcement and because of its negative correlation with the Nikkei-225 index, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by 0.4% on the same day. But that was all it was, a knee-jerk reaction. Since the BOJ's July 31 announcement, the yen ...