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Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... Stephen Clibborn and Russell Lansbury add. But these prophets of doom might be making a mountain of a molehill for as per Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake, the country's car and car components manufacturing industry ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... Octobers over the last eight decades and less than a quarter the moves in 1929, 1987 and 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Bank of America Corp.'s Market Risk Index that uses options to forecast fluctuations in equities, currencies and bonds reached ...

Global investment banking fees up 3% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... its top ranking in the investment banking league table, taking in $4.4 billion in fees or 7.8% of the total. Second-place Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) booked fees of $4 billion. The top five spots were filled by US banks, with rankings unchanged ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... uncertainty has raised volatility in the US bond market. According to Bloomberg, "Treasury volatility as measured by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch MOVE index rose to 75.51 yesterday, the most since Aug. 16, four weeks before the Fed's Sept. 13 announcement...The ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... of them all. Recession talks are beginning to be the thing du jour. Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia chief economist Saul Eslake warning, "we could be in recession within two years once investment ...

Australia is world leader in treasury: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... the leader of the Asia Pacific region, according to the preliminary results of a survey by technology provider Sungard and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The full research will be released at the end of this month, but Sungard vice president Mike Fullmer ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... be the single biggest issue of 2013. Speaking this morning at Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Sydney, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Australia chief economist Saul Eslake said that how Australia negotiates this "batting change" ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... the economy, making Australia's concerns with just a "two-speed" economy seem somewhat hillbilly. Ting Lu, an economist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, was even more more upbeat, saying, "The Chinese economy is now in a sweet-spot and can stay in the ...

Nomura hires ex-RBS fixed income head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
Japanese investment bank, Nomura has hired RBS' former head of fixed income trading Jon Linton to head up Australian macro-products. Based in Sydney, Linton will report to Yutaka Nakajima, senior managing director and head of fixed income trading for ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... banking group Julius Baer will acquire Merrill Lynch's International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America. It's understood Julius Baer paid 860 million Swiss francs for the acquisition, which is expected to add up ...