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QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... closing flat (0.01%) while we slept. A number of blogeratti put the small bounce to Madam Yellen telling the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker of her confidence for the US economy. Sure, sure... this was already reported the day before last ...

BNP Paribas custody MD resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
BNP Paribas Securities Services managing director Peter Baker has resigned and will leave the company on Friday. Baker, who had spent 10 months in the role, informed the executive team of his decision to leave the firm this week. Financial Standard ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... "Global Growth Disappoints, Pace of Recovery Uneven and Country-Specific," but at the same time says nothing the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker do not already know. Even the dot points of its "considerable downside risks". To stress its ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... after the Governing Council meeting of 2 October 2014". That time - 2 October 2014 - has come and though the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker didn't bat their collective eyelashes at the ECB's decision to leave monetary policy settings as they ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... explained why the Fed believes that there's still "significant" slack in the labour market and forward guided the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker (and their dogs and cats) that, "...based on a range of labor market indicators, that "labor ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... and the VIX index is up to a still-low 14.12 reading. Compare this to September 2013's taper tantrum when the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker were all convinced that Big Ben Bernanke (remember him?) will announce taper after the 18th September ...

Towers Watson shakes up manager research teams

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... Towers Watson has appointed Luba Nikulina as its new global head of manager research following the appointment of Craig Baker as global chief investment officer. Nikulina has been with Towers Watson for nine years, most recently holding the London-based ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... explained why the Fed believes that there's still "significant" slack in the labour market and forward guided the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker (and their dogs and cats) that, "...based on a range of labor market indicators, that "labor ...

Executives lose sleep over changing regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... have incurred increasing costs as a result of government regulation. BNP Paribas Securities Services chief executive Peter Baker said: "The most concerning operational issue is risk management - improving risk analytics and improving the risk-return ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... the headlines pointing the finger on Putin for the down day on the equity markets. But if it really was, the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker should be disappointed... disappointed that the S&P 500, for instance, only dipped instead of dropped. ...