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Top traded stocks revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... with trading activity up 372% during June, Facebook (up 330%), Hertz (up 916%), Amazon (up 602%), Microsoft (up 455%), American Airlines Group (up 545%) and Disney (up 158%).

Chief economist update: Extraordinarily uncertain outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has painted an optimistic picture of developments in the US economy while at the same time warning of extraordinary uncertainty. "As the economy reopens, incoming data are beginning to reflect a resumption of economic ...

Former BMO head joins big four executive line-up

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... headquarters and BMO Partners, head of global treasury management and commercial payments, senior vice president of North American digital and physical channels and vice president of personal salesforce effectiveness. Before joining BMO in 2008, Irvine ...

Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
A disgraced American lobbyist, businessman and movie producer, who was played by actor Kevin Spacey in a movie about his life, has been charged over his role in a fraudulent bitcoin scheme. Jack Abramoff, who in 2006 was sentenced to six years in federal ...

Super fund names chief risk officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... assurance team, effective 29 June 2020. Raftis joins the super fund following 20 years working internationally with AXA, AIG (American Insurance Group) and Zurich. He has held a number of executive roles including chief risk officer, chief auditor and ...

Schroders nabs Mercer product boss

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... product. Morcos replaces the US-bound incumbent Stephen Kwa, who is set to formally begin his tenure with the firm's North American operation next week. Morcos enjoyed almost four years as the regional boss of Mercer's product and solutions management ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... help. However, corporate austerity, in itself, dictates reduced staffing. This would only add to the more than 20 million American workers (as of latest count) now without jobs. The same cost-cutting measures financial markets expect companies to implement ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... With our decisions through the course of the past year, we believe that monetary policy is well positioned to serve the American people by supporting continued economic growth, a strong job market, and inflation near our symmetric 2% goal". Ergo, "...the ...

ESG-themed funds fall short of expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... not have an ESG-focused objective. In fact, the IFP Global Franchise has about 5% of its portfolio invested in British American Tobacco. Looking at Australian large equities strategies separately, again funds with no specific ESG theme received the strongest ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
US bourses fell overnight after data revealed 3.8 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. Over the past six weeks, 30.3 million Americans have filed claims for unemployment benefits as businesses shutter thanks to coronavirus shutdowns. ...