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Greencape lures BlackRock analyst

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... he will be responsible for stock analysis and selection. Koh joins Greencape from BlackRock where he served as a vice-president and equity analyst within the fundamental Asian equity team. His areas of stock-picking focus were resources, energy, transport ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... investors from New York to Rio and old London town. Yes, we've got a problem coming Houston. It's the US debt ceiling. As President Obama warned last night, "markets could go haywire" if the US$16,400,000,000,000 is not lifted. You better believe it. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... mulled falling eurozone industrial output while waiting for 2012 earnings reports from US companies and comments by President Barack Obama on the US debt ceiling. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies slid 0.22 per cent to close at 6,107.86 ...

MetLife makes senior appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... be based out of Hong Kong and will start with the company in February 2013. He will report to Christopher Townsend, president of Asia for MetLife. "I am extremely pleased that Damien is joining the MetLife team," said Townsend. "He is a strong business ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... government spending cuts that take effect on January 1 unless Congress and the White House reach a deal to avert them. President Barack Obama said a deal was "still a work in progress." Asked about Boehner's assertion that he was waiting to hear more ...

Brad Fox Appointed AFA CEO

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... shock resignation by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) CEO Richard Klipin a month ago, the immediate past president, current treasurer and Interim CEO, Brad Fox was announced as his successor yesterday. Commenting on the announcement, AFA president ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... `fiscal cliff', a series of sharp tax increases and spending cuts that will hit the economy in January if Congress and President Barack Obama are unable to thrash out an agreement to reduce the US budget deficit. LONDON - European stocks rose on anticipation ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... paper reported, citing people close to the process. Stock markets stayed higher even after Boehner said at midday that President Barack Obama is slow-walking talks to avoid the fiscal cliff, and hasn't outlined spending cuts he's willing to support as ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... up 70% of the US economy, it makes up just 20% of the Chinese economy. The expected transition is why Ha Jiming, vice president at Goldman Sachs, is predicting a soft landing, as is almost everyone else. The landing will be so soft that Ha doesn't even ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... months. The news on the hoped for resolution to the Fiscal Cliff negotiations isn't so upbeat. Indeed the main news about President Obama over the weekend was his upcoming beachfront holiday to Hawaii and the $4 million it will cost US taxpayers notwithstanding ...