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

Search Results

Showing 671 - 680 of 777 results for "Greece"

Shocked, not awed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... liquidity's back and money are now available to European economies that need them. But for some, Portugal and Ireland and Greece and Spain and Italy are far from being solvent. They could still default. And if that's not bad enough, this is now being ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... hovered in or around the red for most of Thursday, before a late sell-off. As the markets closed, news trickled in from Greece that an explosive device went off outside a maximum security prison near Athens on Thursday, injuring one person. US stocks ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... other Europeans to do the same. Unless, of course, governments fear the same social and political upheavals that followed Greece's budgetary cuts. But there is no other choice. It is time to pay the piper... and the piper must be paid. So, Australians ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... mean one thing -- economic hardship and social and political unrest. Note the bloody (literally) protests and riots in Greece when the government implemented austerity measures in the country. While Europe's rescue plan may have short-circuited another ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... technical rebound after falling over 6 per cent last week and by a massive stabilisation plan for the euro zone to keep Greece's fiscal woes from spreading. Tokyo market players were optimistic but wary, noting that the Nikkei had been on the brink of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... Australian dollar had soared on Monday morning after the International Monetary Fund formally approved bailout funds for Greece. Germany's government also approved bailout assistance while European Union finance ministers agreed on a euro750 billion ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Feeding the fear. Times like these, it's not so difficult to do. Just replace the word "Greece" with "global" in Greece sovereign crisis and what do you have? You have Global Sovereign Crisis and the attendant panic and volatility in the financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... low of 10,257.32. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares fell 1.06 per cent, in line with world markets, on growing concern that Greece's debt crisis will spread and hurt the global recovery. The benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 213.12 points at 19,920.29. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market was sharply lower at noon, pummelled by fresh concerns over Greece's financial woes, record intraday falls on Wall Street and the government's proposed resources tax. At 1210 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... went in the other direction. After opening at US$34.61, its shares briefly touched US$100,000 before closing at US$33." Greece? Global Sovereign Crisis? Financial Regulation? China Slowdown? Double-dip? The machines trounce them all. This is but a snippet ...