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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... ExxonMobil rose 1.7 per cent and Marathon Oil surged 4.4 per cent as US crude prices finished at a 2015 peak. Bank of America fell 1.1 per cent after first-quarter earnings came in below expectations, while Dow member Intel jumped 4.3 per cent as first-quarter ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... bubbles into the 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 ...

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

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... growth rates of 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 ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... is moving in the opposite direction because businesses have been disappointed at the government's performance, Bank of America Merryll Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake said at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney. Eslake said that ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Principal Global 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 ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... feel optimistic. With the domestic housing boom reaching its peak, construction is set to see "a record year," Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake told Financial Standard. Perpetual head of investment market research Matt Sherwood ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... singing glory, glory hallelujah and dancing the macarena. But nah, Virginia. In keeping up with our whinging, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist, Saul Eslake, threw the media a bone and now they're running with it and refuse to let go. Don't ...

NAB appoints private wealth manager

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... mining firm Sirius Minerals where he was chief financial officer. Prior to that he was head of capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Australia), where he sat on the executive committee. A qualified chartered accountant, Murray was also head ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... dropped to new multi-month lows. Caterpillar, another Dow component, shed 1.4 per cent following a downgrade by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have closed mixed amid concerns about French public finances and uncertainty ...

Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... access to high quality information and advisers. Responding to this, Anatoly Kirievsky, head of compliance at Bank of America, said: "Do we need a 'safe harbour' provision where providers can offer basic product information at low compliance risk?" Above ...