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Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... in the December 2018 after shrinking by 0.1% in the previous three-month period. To be sure, economists and financial markets expected this but the decline in the economy's national output was double their expected of 0.1%. Year-on-year, Italian ...

Aussie equities trading volume jumps at Liquidnet

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... greater diversity in seeking institutional liquidity." Weidenhofer has more than 20 years' experience in financial markets. For the last 10 years she has worked at Liquidnet. In her most recent role, she was Liquidnet's head of product for Asia ...

IRESS appoints insto broking head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... across institutional and online, before this most recent promotion. Kirsty Gross, IRESS' managing director of financial markets in Australia and New Zealand welcomed Vidinis' appointment, noting his industry expertise. "I congratulate George on his appointment. ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... etcetera. Figure out Trump and we can figure out where the global economy and fiscal and monetary polices, and financial markets, are headed... at least, until 2020.

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... was due to a host of issues including the partial government shutdown, the impact of tariffs, instabilities in financial markets, the global slowdown, and the lack of clarity about monetary policies. Aside from the direct economic impact from these various ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... than US$441 billion in assets. After stepping down from the Vanguard board in 1999, Bogle created the Bogle Financial Markets Resource Centre in 1999, to analyse issues affecting mutual funds and financial markets through speeches, public articles and ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... disorderly exit has increased with this vote. While we do not want this to happen, we will be prepared for it." Financial markets appear to be prepared too. There wasn't any major upheaval in the UK's financial markets after last night's ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
About this time last year, financial markets were awash with speculation the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing a monetary policy exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January 2018 ...

Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... investing businesses since 2011. He first joined the fund giant in 2004 to assist in the establishment of the Financial Markets Advisory Group. Succeeding Wiedman is head of US wealth advisory Salim Ramji, reporting to BlackRock president Rob Kapito. ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... monetary policy beyond this meeting... participants expressed that recent developments, including the volatility in financial markets and the increased concerns about global growth, made the appropriate extent and timing of future policy firming less ...