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China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... don't believe the numbers, just change the metric. 'The Economist' (TE) magazine did this. It's gone the way of Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist, Saul Eslake to prove that China is - for sure and for certain - markedly slowing. Late last ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... maintained the status quo. Reduced betting on a 2015 rate hike has taken the A$ above US$0.73 in recent days. But as Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake commented last April, "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Sustainability Assessment (CSA). RobecoSAM's statement said that the biggest additions to the indices this year were the Bank of America Corp, Telefonica SA and BHP Billiton; the biggest deletions, meanwhile, were Cisco Systems, PepsiCo and the Royal ...

PM Capital global fund returns $50.3m

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... (Netherlands), Google (US), JP Morgan Chase (US), Oracle Corporation (US), Intercontinental Exchange (US), Pfizer (US), Bank of America (US), Barclays (UK) and Bank of Ireland (UK). The company will pay its first tax bill towards the end of the first ...

Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... ratcheted up their cash positions to levels not seen since before the financial crisis, the latest global survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows. The July numbers show that cash levels have soared to an average of 5.5%, up from 4.9% in June ...

Eslake consultancy up and running after leaving BoA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... surprised" at the amount of work that he has been asked to do through his consultancy firm only weeks after leaving Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML). Speaking to Financial Standard, Eslake said that over the next few days he will be attending an ...

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 ...