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

Search Results

Showing 71 - 80 of 149 results for "Wall Street Journal"

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
"Stocks end lower after Fed decision." This was the title of a video from 'The Wall Street Journal' that encapsulates all the other headlines that answer the 'why' for the weak performance of those scripts on The Street last night. But what did the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... a request for a line of credit from the EU's new bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Wall Street Journal reported. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies jumped the next day by 1.12 per cent to close at 5870.54 points. ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... year to September - and the surge in iron ore imports - reported yesterday mark the start of a new trend. The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch reports that the resurgence of shipments of iron ore to China "became clear in mid-September when 29 vessels--the ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... go a-begging... yet. Not without committing political hara-kiri. Contrast this with his interview with the Wall Street Journal last 26 September - yes, it was only last week. When asked whether he'll ask for a bailout, Rajoy replied, "I can assure you ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia" (mainly, China, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan). Just ask the Wall Street Journal. It printed that Spain would miss its budget targets - yes, target with an s. According to WSJ, it re-stated it 2011 ...

NFL dispute over 401(k) touches down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... more money in officiating as long as it assures long-term improvement," lawyers representing the NFL told The Wall Street Journal. NFL referee salaries, currently at about $150,000 pa, will also progressively increase to $200,000 by 2018 when a new contract ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... folks, he was at it again last night. Non-voting FOMC member and Philly Fed president Charles Plosser told the Wall Street Journal about his doubts over the Fed's latest move and that, "I don't think we will be in a much different position than what ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... triggered mass demonstrations in the debt-stricken country. Spanish Prime Mariano Rajoy was quoted, in the Wall Street Journal, as saying that if Spain's borrowing costs were "too high for too long", then "I can assure you 100 per cent that I would ask ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... involved in finding solutions to the debt crisis." (Reuters). For Romney is anti-Bernanke. Last 23 August, the Wall Street Journal reported that Romney "told the Fox Business Network that as president, he would want to install someone new in the Federal ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... to 1.88% by the end of 2011 and 1.70% last night. And as Steve Goldstein - Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal - wrote: "The CBO... says the budget deficit would shrink by nearly $500 billion in just the first year if the fiscal cliff ...