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Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... the same as it was in December: "But these prophets of doom might be making a mountain of a molehill for as per Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake, the country's car and car components manufacturing industry accounts ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... Clibborn and Russell Lansbury add. But these prophets of doom might be making a mountain of a molehill for as per Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake, the country's car and car components manufacturing industry accounts ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... last eight decades and less than a quarter the moves in 1929, 1987 and 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Bank of America Corp.'s Market Risk Index that uses options to forecast fluctuations in equities, currencies and bonds reached minus 0.74 last ...

Global investment banking fees up 3% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... ranking in the investment banking league table, taking in $4.4 billion in fees or 7.8% of the total. Second-place Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) booked fees of $4 billion. The top five spots were filled by US banks, with rankings unchanged from ...

Wealthy parents fear kids can't handle family fortune

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... confidence in their children's ability to handle a large financial inheritance, according to a recent survey from Bank of America private wealth subsidiary U.S. Trust. The private bank asked 711 Americans with more US$3 million in investable assets a ...

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... in US banks with big mortgage lending books that would benefit from a housing recovery, such as Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Moore stressed that taking a longer-term view than other fund managers had led to other benefits. "Because we're contrarian ...

SFG to look at WHK acquisition after reporting season

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... business transformation. The company also revealed that it has appointed a number of financial advisers including Bank of America Merrill Lycnh (BAML) "to consider and review a range of potential opportunities in the rapidly changing financial services ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... uncertainty has raised volatility in the US bond market. According to Bloomberg, "Treasury volatility as measured by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch MOVE index rose to 75.51 yesterday, the most since Aug. 16, four weeks before the Fed's Sept. 13 announcement...The ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... all. Recession talks are beginning to be the thing du jour. Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake warning, "we could be in recession within two years once investment in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 14.34 (0.42 per cent) to 3,392.97. NEW YORK - US closed mixed, with Bank of America advancing strongly on news of a key mortgage securities settlement. The broad-based S&P 500 edged to a new all-time closing ...