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Frontier Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Frontier from his role as head of product APAC for Liquidnet. He previously was director, global partnerships at Thompson Reuters and global head of strategy and product at Bloomberg. Jenkins will be returning to Australia for his new role, after 16 ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... could go wrong went wrong. Here are the headlines: Northeast China hit by coronavirus infections, Wuhan reports new case (Reuters) "BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese authorities reported on Sunday what could be the beginning of a new wave of coronavirus cases ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... wake of the 2009 financial crisis totaling ¥56 trillion in size, with fiscal spending of ¥15 trillion," according to Reuters. The BOJ's revised GDP and inflation projections explain why both fiscal and monetary are pulling out all the stops. In ...

Global hiring freeze for BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... much of that was wiped in the recent market selloff. BlackRock has 16,200 employees across 30 countries. A source told Reuters that the hiring freeze would likely last for a few weeks. A recent National Australia Bank market research note said unemployment ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... to try to prevent the certainty of a global recession from turning into a global depression. According to Factset : "A Reuters poll of 40 economists showed a median 80% chance of recession this year, the highest level on record, up 50bps in the past ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... big fall in China's stock market when it opens today. But the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is on top of this. Reuters reports that China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... translate into 142.2 million? Even SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) of the early 2000s stopped after 775 deaths? Reuters too. It pointed to a 2008 study conducted by the IMF that predicted that an influenza pandemic could cost US$3 trillion and ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... and I can smell and taste the smoke as I write - two headlines caught my attention this morning. The first one is from Reuters (14 January 2020), "Australian economic outlook overshadowed by bushfires, drought: Reuters poll". According to the article ...

New head for Sydney Stock Exchange

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... Michael Go as its new chief executive. Go joined the SSX earlier this year after working as head of trading for Thomson Reuters in Hong Kong since 2015. Prior to that Go held positions as head of markets at AFMA and executive roles at MMADX for the Asia ...

Macquarie to cut jobs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... response to "structural changes" in the broader market after it conducted a strategic review of its business. According to Reuters, the bank has around 700 cash equities employees, with a source telling them the group is expected to cut around 100 jobs ...