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Eslake leaves Bank of America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) chief economist Saul Eslake has left the organisation and a replacement has already been confirmed. A member of the firm's economic team and longtime colleague of Eslake, Alex Joiner, will head BoAML's economics ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... shares also thrived. Dow members JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs jumped 1.6 per cent and 2.0 per cent, while Bank of America added 1.6 per cent. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have rebounded, reversing earlier losses as investors fished for bargain ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... show the same slowing trend when the Statistician releases the National Accounts numbers this Wednesday. Already, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake, has lowered his first quarter growth forecast from 0.5% to 0.3% -- the slowest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... cent and Gilead Sciences shed 2.5 per cent. Exceptions included Netflix (+1.9 per cent), which was upgraded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tesla Motors (+1.1 per cent), which reports earnings on Wednesday. LONDON - Eurozone stocks have tumbled ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... ExxonMobil rose 1.7 per cent and Marathon Oil surged 4.4 per cent as US crude prices finished at a 2015 peak. Bank of America fell 1.1 per cent after first-quarter earnings came in below expectations, while Dow member Intel jumped 4.3 per cent as first-quarter ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... bubbles into the property market, low interest rates have thus far failed to stoke Australia's "animal spirits". Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake says it best: "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition of insanity ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... growth rates of 10.5 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively. The fifth panelist Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, wrapped up the forum with more local analysis, starting with terms of trade figures to interest rates. Contrary ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... is moving in the opposite direction because businesses have been disappointed at the government's performance, Bank of America Merryll Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake said at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney. Eslake said that ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Principal Global Investors' chief global economist Bob Baur, Financial Services Council chief economist James Bond, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake and State Street Global Advisors chief economist Christopher Probyn. Global ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... feel optimistic. With the domestic housing boom reaching its peak, construction is set to see "a record year," Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake told Financial Standard. Perpetual head of investment market research Matt Sherwood ...