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

Search Results

Showing 601 - 610 of 821 results for "Nations"

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... amid end of week profit-taking. The markets also had one eye on the leaders of the G20 major developed and developing nations who were gathering in Paris for two days of talks. On the smaller European bourses, Lisbon made the biggest move, down 1.18 ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... greenback but because Egypt's role in these markets is neglible as the region's major petro-dollar fixed interest investor nations place their reserves elsewhere.

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... until we found that the sovereign debt crisis did not stop at Greece. We were all convinced until we saw most European nations slashed government spending and raise taxes to right their wrong budget deficits. Now we're replaying the same calls. Now ...

Developed nations raise funds for ADB

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Governments of developed countries are pouring millions of dollars into development funds to help strengthen the financial systems of developing countries in Asia. The Government of Luxembourg has committed a further a,-1.5 million ($2 million) to an ...

China, Russia dump USD for bilateral trade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... rouble in the Chinese inter-bank market. Parallel trading is expected to soon open in Russia. Trade volumes between the two nations is estimated at $50 billion, up 45 per cent in just one year. The currency switch is expected to result in less demand ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... world got along nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy and is the only Asian country to become a member of the rich club of nations - the OECD - apart from Japan of course. But "If anything can go wrong..." The trouble in this Asian Tiger has added to ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the leaders of the G-20 nations are meeting in South Korea, all hoping that they would not have to sign their own version of an armistice. Each hopes that an ...

Media Super signs UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Media Super has become one of the latest super funds to adopt the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Media Super, the industry fund which caters to people in creative industries, said it believes companies that act in a responsible ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju: blah, blah, blah... and more blah, blah, blah. As it always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that the brewing currency ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... The country is at a developing stage and has looser regulations with regards to company reporting than in the developed nations, and it remains a big challenge for fund managers to ensure company information they receive is accurate." Two funds achieved ...