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Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... -0.6% (deflation) by January 2015. So much so that Draghi's first month (or three days after he assumed the ECB presidency) was to cut interest rates by 25 bps each - repo rate to 1.25%, marginal lending facility rate to 2.00% and deposit facility ...

M&G sets up shop down under

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... asset management, Asia Pacific, now leading M&G real estate business in Australia. His previous roles includes a vice presidency at AIG, and time at Macquarie Goodman Asia. Head of institutional fixed income William Nicoll said the appointments will ...

Industry fund appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... extended period of time." "We know that Allan will continue to make a contribution to the timber industry through his presidency of the Timber Trade Industrial Association and additionally to sport in Canberra through his presidency of the Federal Golf ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... he was elected, Trump wrote on Twitter stating that "the stock market has posted $3.2 trillion in GAINS" since his presidency and took much of the credit. An analysis by Acorns/Grow found since his presidency, the "Trump Bump" is having a remarkable ...

AIST president and board director switch seats

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... president David Smith is leaving his post after a two-year term and a board director has climbed up to the fill the presidency. Catherine Bolger will be AIST's new president. She has been a board director at the industry association since 2016. "She ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... newly-elected president at this stage. Overall, 44% of those polled said they approve of how Trump is handling the presidency compared to 54% who disapprove." Trump's disapproval rating makes him the first president out of the last four to reach the ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... market still went up with investors still buying his promises of tax cuts and infrastructure spending. This early in his presidency, there's no reason to doubt that Trump walks his talk. Latest reports that the president has signed an executive order ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... intervened in aggressively were immigration and international trade. One of the lesser-known policy changes during his presidency was his near halt to immigration through an Executive Order in September 1930. His argument was that blocking immigration ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... uptick post his election had nothing to do with him while the other half reckons it is. "The main takeaway of a Trump presidency is that the distribution of expected outcomes has widened dramatically," said Eric Stein, co-director of global income at ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... for America - that's what businessmen do. The same way he did to win first, the Republican nomination, and then the presidency. Think I've just given myself away as one of the "closet Trumpeteers".