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

Search Results

Showing 581 - 590 of 618 results for "CPI +4.5 %"

Weekly Economic Roundup

Inflation and interest rates continued to be the dominant theme at last week's financial market trading activity in Australia. A surprise jump in US headline consumer price inflation - and its implication for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the ...

Weekly economic roundup

After a strong start, the Australian stock market again succumbed to the negative lead from Wall Street, with the S&P/ASX 200 index down by 34.5 points, or 0.8 per cent at the close of last week's trading. While investors largely ignored reports of ...

Weekly economic roundup

To paraphrase the soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, 'Beware the Ides of October,' because the largest market crashes in history (1929 and 1987) happened in October and even 2005 has just felt the same winds. As if on cue, the advent of October ...

Weekly economic roundup

Australian financial markets largely ignored second-tier domestic data released last week in favour of the more market moving decisions by the US Federal Reserve and by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Last week, the US Federal ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2005
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly weaker as a fall in oil prices and a weak overseas lead is expected to weigh on the domestic bourse. Still, with some stock-specific news expected today, there could be some gains in particular ...

Another bumper financial year for super funds

... a negative two percent. Therefore over the three-year period the pooled fund median return is 8.5 per cent, exceeding the CPI (2.6 per cent per annum for the three years to March 2005) and average weekly earnings (4.9 per cent per annum for the three ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as a poor lead from US markets and base metals sets a negative tone for the bourse. However, there is a bit of equity news and key economic data due today, which should allow the domestic market ...

New head of research at Macquarie Funds Management

Macquarie Funds Management will look to develop its investment processes in its domestic cash and fixed interest and currency division following the appointment of Lloyd Alty as its new head of research. In his new role Alty will be responsible for ...

Interest rates may rise after CPI increase

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2005
The case for higher interest rates had strengthened with the recent resurgence of inflation pressures in the domestic economy, analysts said today. Australia's consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.8 per cent in the December quarter, lifting the annual ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer today, with a mixed session in the US providing little direction for the market. A strong performance by mining stocks, including Rio Tinto, in the UK overnight could underpin early gains ...