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

Search Results

Showing 41 - 50 of 70 results for "Bank of America Merrill Lynch"

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... the numbers, just change the metric. 'The Economist' (TE) magazine did this. It's gone the way of Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist, Saul Eslake to prove that China is - for sure and for certain - markedly slowing. Late last year Saul told ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... status quo. Reduced betting on a 2015 rate hike has taken the A$ above US$0.73 in recent days. But as Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake commented last April, "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition of insanity ...

Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... cash positions to levels not seen since before the financial crisis, the latest global survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows. The July numbers show that cash levels have soared to an average of 5.5%, up from 4.9% in June and 4.5% in May. High ...

Eslake consultancy up and running after leaving BoA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... amount of work that he has been asked to do through his consultancy firm only weeks after leaving Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML). Speaking to Financial Standard, Eslake said that over the next few days he will be attending an economics conference ...

Eslake leaves Bank of America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) chief economist Saul Eslake has left the organisation and a replacement has already been confirmed. A member of the firm's economic team and longtime colleague of Eslake, Alex Joiner, will head BoAML's economics ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... slowing trend when the Statistician releases the National Accounts numbers this Wednesday. Already, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake, has lowered his first quarter growth forecast from 0.5% to 0.3% -- the slowest since the March ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... Gilead Sciences shed 2.5 per cent. Exceptions included Netflix (+1.9 per cent), which was upgraded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tesla Motors (+1.1 per cent), which reports earnings on Wednesday. LONDON - Eurozone stocks have tumbled on fears ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... property market, low interest rates have thus far failed to stoke Australia's "animal spirits". Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake says it best: "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition of insanity is doing the ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... 10.5 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively. The fifth panelist Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, wrapped up the forum with more local analysis, starting with terms of trade figures to interest rates. Contrary to what his ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Investors' chief global economist Bob Baur, Financial Services Council chief economist James Bond, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake and State Street Global Advisors chief economist Christopher Probyn. Global growth was the economists' ...