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

Search Results

Showing 791 - 800 of 1070 results for "NOTHING"

Floods test contingency plans

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... floods were at their peak but during that week all of our staff operated out of the Gold Coast. For the business it was nothing more than a speedbump," he said. "Our building wasn't affected by the floods, they cut the power to the CBD but we weren't ...

ACCC gives go ahead to SGX-ASX deal

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... with Greens leader Bob Brown going so far as to condemn the transaction on the basis of Singapore's human rights record. Nothing stirs emotions more than foreign takeovers, meaning the issue could become the first real test of the Government's resolve ...

CMC taps pattern recognition for traders

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... out where to enter, set stop loss orders and set profit targets. It can be as advanced as complex algorithms or involve nothing more than a pencil and a ruler. CMC Market's new software identifies both completed and emerging patterns over short or medium ...

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
Poor little rich kid. If you look at the performance of the Australian stock market since the start of the year and nothing else, you would be forgiven for concluding that the economy downunder is not enjoying the cheer of this yuletide season, no siree. ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... greenback's rebound is indicative that investors are parking their money into the relative safety of the US currency because nothing's well in the world as yet. Look at China, it's tightening monetary policy. Then there's the US bond market. Yields on ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... Wall Street did while we were sleeping. The S&P 500 slid by 0.1 per cent and the Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... strategist. Matthew Sherwood, Perpetual's head of investment markets research, told Financial Standard that "QEII will do nothing to create stronger US growth" and that the "overall outlook is for modest growth with heightened volatility." He said that ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... growth forecast becomes a reality. This is still within the economy's potential growth rate of between 3-3.5 per cent. Nothing to get your thongs in a tussle about! And even if the ANZ's crystal ball reading of no growth in the September quarter from ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... budget in December. But "If anything can go wrong..." The fear is that the new government could renege on the agreement. Nothing and no one could force Ireland to toe the line. It holds Europe hostage. If Ireland sinks, the whole of Europe could drown. ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
Nothing pleases the ears of an Australian more than a compliment from an overseas visitor, but the news that our listed property market is the world's most efficient is something of a mixed bag for local investors. "You happen to live in the most transparent ...