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Acorn appoints former Citi portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... manager and senior analyst at Challenger Financial Services, as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, JB Were and HSBC, and as an economist at ANZ. This is the second senior appointment Acorn has made in the past 12 months. Paul Quah joined Asian side of the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Australian shares did not follow strong leads from Wall Street as investors took their cues from local events, Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian said. He said underwhelming earnings reports from several companies, including medical device maker Cochlear ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... 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 for only 0.4% of employment and contributes ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... assets to invest in infrastructure. We also look back at some of the main issues brought up at Financial Standard's Chief Economist Forum. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPadA(C) app free from the App store ...

CBA: Expect higher inflation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
Commonwealth Bank chief economist Michael Blythe has warned Australia to expect higher inflation as the dollar continues to fall. Presenting his 2014 economic forecast at an Australian Institute of Company Directors' (AICD) lunch in Sydney, Blythe said ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street ahead of a much-watched US labour market report and amid mixed trade and labour data. At 0901 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 37 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... 3,996.96. "This is the beginning of the correction that we have been waiting for," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. The sell-off came after a report showing US manufacturing sector growth slowed sharply in January. ...

China unlikely to achieve 10% growth again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
"Does the future belong to China? Maybe, but the thrill is gone," Principal Global Investors Chief Economist Bob Baur stated at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Melbourne. "We don't think China is ever going to see 10% growth again. ...

Europe a 'running sore' on global economy: Probyn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... growth in 2014, but over the long-term its problems are far from over, according to State Street Global Advisors' chief economist Christopher Probyn. Speaking at today's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Probyn said Europe's economy ...

Aussie employment outlook 'slightly dismal': Sloan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... according to The Australian contributing economics editor Judith Sloan. Speaking at the annual Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney this morning, Sloan put the rising unemployment down to the winding down of the mining boom and less public ...