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

Search Results

Showing 561 - 565 of 565 results for "Middle-East"

Economy in good shape despite predicted slowdown: NAB

... Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold interest rates in the near term, until the final resolution of developments in the Middle East and problems caused by the rural drought. "Provided our base-case assumptions about international developments are realized ...

Hurdles lie in wait for Australian economy: Commonwealth Bank

... hurdles ahead due to the weak global outlook, weakness in global equity markets, the risk of protracted conflict in the Middle East, the effects of the drought and a possible downturn in the housing cycle, Stuart Grimshaw, chief financial officer at ...

Morning market wrap: Equities back in favour

... likely to be carried higher by the upswing, but will remain susceptible to both positive and negative news from the Middle East. But Financial Standard chief economist Rob Pereira said that the market could have run too hard too fast. "Investors have ...

Morning market wrap: Dow Jones edges higher

... with WTI dropping $1.27 to $28.61 per barrel. Traders of that commodity, well used to dealing with tensions in the Middle East, had clearly factored in the costs of conflict well ahead of the actual commencement of hostilities, and supply fears have ...

Job advertisements climb 3.2% in February: ANZ

... of higher oil prices, falling share prices and the apparently increasing likelihood of a military conflict in the Middle East," Eslake said. "However, we are hesitant to interpret these latest results as signalling that employment will continue growing ...