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Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... the nation. The first, and most notable in the economics world is Janet Yellen, whom Biden has nominated to lead the US Treasury. Yellen is the former US Federal Reserve governor. She was also the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... rules to make it simpler to settle the currency internationally. 'Twas less than one and a half years ago that the US Treasury Department branded China a "currency manipulator" - the first time in 25 years - because the yuan's depreciation gives ...

Manipulative trading at J.P. Morgan costs it over $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... bank in connection to a related proceeding regarding manipulative trading activity in the secondary cash market for US treasury notes and bonds. Under the resolution, J.P. Morgan Securities will pay $10 million in disgorgement and a $25 million civil ...

Brace for 5% returns from global stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... Asia, is a mere 0.6% return premium to developed markets." In fixed income, it expects an interest of 1% from 10-year US Treasury Bonds. Global high yield will produce an annualised return of 5.6% p.a. over the period. "Low but steady interest rates ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... authority - or what's called a "Hamilton moment" - "the historic constitutional compromise forged by the first US Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson in that year [1790]" where "the US federal government assumed ...

Opportunities in EM debt rebound: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
Despite the dramatic rebound experienced in financial markets during the second quarter, Eaton Vance believes there are still pockets of opportunity in the emerging market sector. Buoyed by central bank and governmental policy responses around the world ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... the quality of its controls over several years." Continual failings by FBME in meeting US standards resulted in the US Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network mandating all banks in the US to cease doing business with it. The DFS said ...

FASEA extension hits snag

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
The extensions that will allow financial advisers an extra year to complete the FASEA exam and two years to complete the FASEA education requirements was returned to the House of Representatives after an amendment was sought. Despite being introduced ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... proved the catalyst to tip US markets into a modesty risk-averse state. With markets falling, so did credit, he said. "US Treasury yields dropped, with the yield curve flattening and the 10 year yield trading at 0.59 per cent," Rodda said. Gold on the ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... to 5.5%, moving back to 2015 levels in just one week." (EPI) We're doomed! Well, it all depends on whether the US Treasury and the Fed's largesse - needless to say, a cure for the coronavirus is discovered soon - are able to revive confidence ...