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AXA Gorilla to retire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... gorilla," Stacy Braun, senior vice president for advertising and marketing at AXA Equitable in New York, told the New York Times. AXA Equitable said AXA Gorilla will be replaced by a new campaign called Destination Retirement Sweepstakes that aligns ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... the time they were trading. Forget Greece, "For Markets in Europe, the Focus of Fear Moves to Italy," printed the New York Times as "Italy's Surging Bond Yields Set Berlusconi on Path to Bailout" (Bloomberg). If the problem of Italy being too big to ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... seat when the a,-8 billion aid is dropped on Greece's begging cap - if ever, this would be disbursed at all. The New York Times reports dear George reached an agreement with Greek Opposition leader Antonis Samaras to form a Unity Government but sans ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... of the eurozone rescue fund. All 30 Dow blue chips fell, with Bank of America taking a 4.9 per cent hit after a New York Times report said it is facing a $US50 billion ($A50.67 billion) shareholder lawsuit related to its takeover of Merrill Lynch. The ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... president of public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, told the New York Times. Problems surfaced when it was interpreted as meaning commissions would effectively be outlawed and fundamentally change the ...

Brand fit for a boardroom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... - have built and capitalised on their brand, and the same principles can apply in financial services. Even the New York Times and Businessweek bestseller, 'Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101', devoted an entire chapter on the subject. "Building ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... it'll produce the same ill will that neutralises the policy's purpose. As Paul Krugman wrote in his blog for the New York Times back in November 2010, "...yelling and screaming as the Fed attempts QE, this will have the effect of undermining the policy's ...

Deal or no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... thrills and spills but when it comes to the final buzzer, we all know that the final call would be "deal!" The New York Times reported last night that US President Obama (Democrat) and House Speaker John Boehner (Republican) were nearing a "major budget ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... long-term funding costs and increasing the burden on the American taxpayer." You can read his letter (published by the New York Times) here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/what-happens-if-the-debt-ceiling-isnt-raised/ Least ugly sister. ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... US debt and deficit stupid? It was all the rage last year too - that of reining in the deficit. There was even a New York Times story this time last year (thank goodness I kept my note) relating that the Federal government cutting Medicaid spending to ...