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

Search Results

Showing 771 - 780 of 898 results for "Indicators"

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... 29.88, or 0.26 per cent, to 11,632.38 Wednesday after rising nearly 100 points early in the session. Broader stock indicators also advanced. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.19, or 0.41 per cent, to 1,282.19 and the technology-laden Nasdaq composite ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... indicator, purchasing managers indexes for France, Germany, and the Eurozone, Italian and French business confidence indicators, and Eurozone money supply. Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMI) for the Eurozone as a whole and for France and Germany are expected ...

US houses continue to burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... by 2.2 percent in the second quarter while export prices are forecasts to rise by 10 percent. These are second tier indicators and would have very little market moving significance for today's financial market activity but should will confirm the continued ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... will continue going forward, at least until the US housing crisis is over and home prices stop falling. And recent indicators in the US housing market show that this might take just a little bit longer. US Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's monetary ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... crunch. The Labour Force report is critical to markets because employment growth and the unemployment rate are two key indicators of economic activity and have important bearing on consumer sentiment and fiscal and monetary policies.

This Week's Market Movers (7-11 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Orders (May). Machinery orders, in particular core machinery orders, is considered one of Japan's leading key investment indicators. Core machinery orders rose by 5.5 per cent in April. With global growth cooling and domestic consumer sentiment on a ...

Rates on hold thanks to oil prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... financial conditions, in conjunction with other factors including rising fuel costs, is working to restrain demand. Indicators of household spending have recorded subdued outcomes over recent months, and credit expansion to both households and businesses ...

NZ economy goes negative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... the verge of overheating," he explained. Robinson warned that, "Given that little improvement can be seen in monthly indicators since the first three months of the year-apart from retail sales, which rebounded 1 per cent m/m in April, mainly from imported ...

Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... gap considerably between them and many developed world economies when adjusted for inflation. The changing monetary indicators coming out of China show how, while disinflation was the Sino-region's gift to the world over the past five years, inflation ...