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

Search Results

Showing 871 - 880 of 1827 results for "Night"

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... note. The benchmark US crude oil contract rose 93 US cents to a nine-month high of $US103.24 a barrel in New York on Friday night (US time), supported by positive US economic data and news from Greece. Making news, Australia's largest steelmaker BlueScope ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... higher to start the week." Mr Jones said all eyes would be on the euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday night, Australian time. The ministers will decide the delivery of a second bailout package for Greece to help it meet its loan ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... Nah, I'm not taking the "stuff" that I think you think I'm taking. I refer to the eco updates released out of America last night. They were all better than what most expected. Yes, one hundred percent all. Have a look: Philly Fed Business Outlook: Business ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... been postponed from yesterday to next week. Now we have a brand new twister in our midst. Reports out in cyberspace last night talk of the European "powers-that-are" are now contemplating delaying the disbursement of the aid until after the Greek elections ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... that the a,-130 billion bailout "hrimata" (money) was practically in its pocket (begging bowl?) - we got what we got last night. We got news that Eurozone finance ministers have cancelled their scheduled meeting -- the one where they're supposed to autograph ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... have been dousing smouldering buildings and clean-up crews are sweeping rubble from the streets of central Athens after a night of rioting. BERLIN - Germany's economy minister has warned against euphoria in the wake of Greece's approval of important ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... volatility would remain with us for most of 2012. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Volatility, instead, has gone MIA. Reports out last night should have provided the catalyst for financial markets to jump around between jubilation and despair. Jubilation on news ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... to public transportation and minimum hospital services. But while there's an air of caution in the financial markets last night, there's none of the panic we witnessed last year. Perhaps, it's because all those who wanted out of Greece - and could -have ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... There's relative calm there despite the sovereign debt crisis overhang. And if you want to be real positive, report out last night showed that the Eurozone's debt-to-GDP ratio declined to 87.4% of GDP in the third quarter of last year from 87.7% in the ...