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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on renewed anxiety over falling oil prices and the rising US dollar. At 0805 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Minister Morten Oestergaard, added for good measure. I wonder if this is the same vehement assurance that SNB Vice President Jean-Pierre Danthine gave only two days prior to his bank's dismantling of the franc/euro peg? "We're convinced that the cap ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... per euro Forward guidance, pfft! Markets wouldn't have been completely taken off guard were it not for SNB vice president Jean-Pierre Danthine's assurance - err, forward guidance - only two days prior that, "we're convinced that the cap on the franc ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... borrowing costs. But "crowding in"? Again, what the fudge is that? This, my friends, is what European Commission (EC) president Jean-Claude Juncker calls the EC's fresh initiative to breathe life into the region's comatosing economy. The Juncker plan ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains of more than one per cent on Wall Street. At 0645 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 51 points at 5,276. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, the ...

Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Voya Investment Management has appointed Jean-Dominique BA1/4tikofer to its fixed income team as head of emerging markets. He will be responsible for directing the fund manager's investment strategy across all fixed income asset classes in emerging ...

AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Simon Flood to replace Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of its Asia Pacific business. Leoni is returning to his native France after four years in Asia. He will lead AXA IM's client management group. Based in Hong ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... instruments were discussed." Super Mario must be super worried if he's breaking his standing policy - and that of his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet's (still remember him?) - to "never pre-commit" to forward policy action by pre-committing policy action ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... how could we miss it? It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a level where ...

Pension uncertainty for municipal workers in Detroit

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... they will need to pay for benefits they have promised. Criticism has occurred over the state's management of the crisis. Jean-Pierre Aubry, assistant director of state and local research at the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College, said change ...