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

Search Results

Showing 161 - 170 of 239 results for "Magnitude"

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... to be limited. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 100 points from the day's high shortly after a 7.1-magnitude quake near Japan's east coast prompted fears of further damage to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, infrastructure and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... points, or 0.89 per cent, to 850.21. The detection of plutonium at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, which was crippled by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami on March 11, raised new worries over the extent of a partial meltdown of fuel rods. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... setback to efforts to restore cooling systems at the plant. The plant's cooling systems were crippled by the March 11 magnitude 9.0 quake and the devastating tsunami it unleashed, which tore into the northeast coast and erased entire towns. After last ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... China and other emerging markets remain in tightening mode, and just last night, Burma and Thailand were shaken by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. But did equity markets care? Here's Bloomberg's overnight wrap: "The MSCI gauge of 24 developed nations climbed ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... following heavy losses over the past two days due to the fact they had halted production in Japan following the 9.0-magnitude quake and consequent tsunami. On Wednesday Toyota Motor was up 9.14 per cent and Sony gained 8.78 per cent and Nintendo jumped ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... one of these really had significantly dented investor sentiment. Until 11 March 2011 when Japan was ravaged by a 9.0 magnitude (initially measured as 8.9) that triggered an equally forceful tsunami and now melting down of its nuclear reactors. A warning ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, what will Mommy Nature unleash next? By now you've surely read or heard about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and is still wreaking havoc on the world's third biggest economy. The earthquake ...

BTFG drops van Eyk for S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... Standard & Poor's Fund Services (S&P) for product research to be used by Westpac Financial Planning and dealer group Magnitude Financial Planning. The investment research mandate builds on S&P's services to BTFG, which already included St George's financial ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... observers of the index will have insight into the degree of uncertainty among investors and their expectations regarding the magnitude of future movements in the local equity market," Murphy continued. The ASX said the index will initially be available ...