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

Search Results

Showing 881 - 890 of 1070 results for "NOTHING"

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... private client adviser Bill Bishop said the takeover activity had sparked activity in the financials sector. "There's nothing like a little takeover activity to stir up the market," Mr Bishop said. "It's just the tonic the market probably needed." AXA ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... billion in the September meeting -- through to the first quarter of 2010. Yes Virginia, the Fed's got our back. There is nothing to fear. Buy, buy...and buy some more. The Fed is inflating and it will continue to do so for some time because of "low rates ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... Ahhh...all is well. The US economy is back to growth. But Halloween is not otherwise known as the "festival of the dead" for nothing. The part-tey lasted only a day before guests became scared...really scared. Last Friday's 2.8 per cent drop took the ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... increase sharply in the future and welfare services sharply reduced. Pooped! What's the alternative? For the government to do nothing and watch as the economy crumbles? And low interest rates? What happened when the Fed begins lifting? Australia and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... contracts. "Banks are slipping away a little bit at the moment, NAB reported this morning at the top end of expectation so nothing major there," Burrell Stockbroking adviser Daniel Manley said. "The resources stocks are sort of flat to down, oil stocks ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... request, its subjects only asks, "do you want fries with that?" Sinoland is not called a centrally planned economy for nothing. Early in 2009, it predicted - although guaranteed would be more accurate - growth of 8.0 per cent this year. It's on its way. ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... exiting currently loose policy." Well according to web and paper reports, that is. A lot of baloney I say. For there was nothing new in Big Ben's remarks. He merely voiced out what is plain and obvious - loose policy will head for the exits once the ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... back of reports of upgrades in the earnings outlook for Bank of America and Wells Fargo. So what's different this time? Nothing...as far as Alcoa's better-than-expected bottomline is concerned. It was eerily similar to the second quarter where the pleasant ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... night. I don't really know why Wall Street bothers. Not a single soul expects the FOMC to change policy settings yet. Nothing has changed significantly yet. The flow of broadly positive economic data continues. But so do lingering uncertainties. But ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... "Dragonomics is telling us that, actually, China is under-reporting the figures simply because they can't count them. There's nothing deliberate or Machiavellian or anything in that. They simply just can't count them."