Where Happiness Is King

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, THE small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known for assessing its progress not by conventional economic indexes but by a much more quirky philosophy: Gross National Happiness. As the country yesterday celebrated the coronation of its new king, the outpouring of goodwill towards him suggested the measure has surged in the past few days.

Green Tape Comes At A Price, Say Executives

PROPERTY executives say "green tape" and the plethora of information required by environmental performance indexes such as Green Star are increasing annual reporting costs.

Eade Issues Wake-up Call On Fatigue

FORGET "well-being indexes" - Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade is calling for his players to show old-fashioned mental strength this week and tough out fatigue issues.

Charting The Right Course

SOME had higher University Admission Indexes (UAI) than they expected, others were finding out if they could still do their preferred course after not achieving the score they hoped for.

Dow Jones Adds Centro To Australian Index

Dow Jones Indexes has added the Centro Property Group to the Dow Jones Australia LPT Index. The component change was caused by the retailer's decision last week to spin off its Centro Retail Trust.

The Magic Numbers That Open New Doors

The 2004 Higher School Certificate came to an end for almost 52,000 students on Saturday when they received their Universities Admission Indexes. UAIs are used by NSW and Australian Capital Territory universities to determine which courses students are eligible to study. Only students who complete at least 10 units in the Higher School Certificate receive a UAI. Education reporter COURTNEY TRENWITH spoke to some South Coast students who were pleased the wait was over.

Index Hugging

Why it is topical The imminent departure of News Corporation from the Australian stockmarket indexes shows just how ingrained the culture of index-hugging is among mainstream fund managers.

How A $27bn Move Could Affect Your Decisions

Keep an eye on indexes, writes John Kavanagh, editor of Personal Investor.

State Your University Preference Soon

UNIVERSITIES Admission Indexes were released to HSC students late last month.

We All Deserve A Medal : Soldier Fights For The Forgotten

Will Anderson, 32, is quick and alert, expert in working his fingers up and down indexes and his talking books and full of fond memories of eight years' military service for his country. He is totally blind, as the result of an accident on June 2, 1994, when his light armoured vehicle rolled over three times and used his head, as he put it, ``like a roll-cage".

Hobbyist John Delivers History's Postscript

John Waghorn admits that his hobby has got a little out of hand. He has 30 filing cabinets, and indexes of more than 70,000 postal workers over the past 160 years crammed into three rooms at his Lalor home.

Where Being Smart Is Cool

The principal of Mount Scopus Memorial College, Hilton Rubin, thinks for a moment when asked why Jewish schools consistently perform well in the VCE, with high study scores, high ENTERs and strong standings on the improvement and tertiary preparation indexes.

Students Shine In And Out Of School

You don't have to be a hermit to do exceptionally well in the Higher School Certificate, according to the girls at St Mary's Star of the Sea College. Almost 25 per cent of the school's students received University Admissions Indexes between 90 and 100 - about 40 students out of a year 12 class o

Business Mood In Sharp Decline

Business confidence is sliding downhill at a faster rate than was experienced before the 1991 recession. The Dun & Bradstreet national business expectations survey showed that the rate of decline since January across all indexes - including employment, capital investment and profitability -

Aussie As Meat Pies

AUSTRALIAN content is the focus of the new Internet portal OzNetwork. The network's home page, at www.oznetwork.com.au, puts together news headlines, a TV program guide, stockmarket indexes, weather, stars and a search engine. The portal has been developed by the founders of the Australian Int

All Ords Dead, Long Live New Share Index

THE sharemarket's All Ordinaries index was declared dead on Friday. Not the victim of the mother of share crashes, but because it will be replaced tomorrow by a range of five new share price indexes. What's in a name? $4 million, says Tony Ho, chief financial officer with Yates, the gardening com

Do The Deal

Do the deal: A trader in the Nasdaq 100 stock index futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange signals a trade on Tuesday. Investors shrugged off a quarter-point hike in US interest rates and kept on buying stocks, pushing the major indexes to more than 2% gains. The Federal Reserve's decisio

An Alliance To Weather The Sfe Storm

The alliance formed this week between Dow Jones Indexes and the Sydney Futures Exchange would not be jeopardised by the takeover turmoil surrounding the SFE, the head of the United States financial giant said yesterday. Dow Jones' managing director, Mr Michael Petronella, said he was unconcerned

All Ords Index Tumbles

The sharemarket closed weaker yesterday, with a negative lead from Wall Street and a huge Merrill Lynch sell portfolio resulting in falls across most indexes. The All Ordinaries Index closed down 45.3 points at 3041.0, a 1.5per cent tumble. Analysts were surprised by the magnitude of the fall.

High-tech Yoyos Learn A Fact: What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Thursday February 11, 1999

The most optimistic thing anyone could say on Wall Street yesterday - as the major sharemarket indexes clicked into negative for the first time this year - was that "there's volatility ahead". The optimists were hoping that the lack of real volume behind yesterday's selling promised a