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Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
"Hush, little baby don't say a word Papa's gonna buy you a mocking bird..." Perhaps, a throwback to my childhood but the lullaby applies to the different stages governments around the planet - culminating in total lockdown of their borders - ...

Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
As Glum (of Gulliver's Travels fame) puts it; "We're doomed, we'll never make it!" Speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may have to take the official cash rate to zero or even negative and/or start printing Australian dollars ...

HSBC chief abruptly resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... assist with the transition as the bank considers internal and external candidates to replace him. Flint succeeded Stuart Gulliver as chief on 21 February 2018. He joined HSBC in 1989 and helped establish and expand the HSBC global markets business in ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Asia in areas such as asset management and insurance. In a presentation to investors, HSBC group chief executive Stuart Gulliver listed Australia among the group's growth focus areas, along with Canada, Egypt, India and Taiwan. Other growth areas for ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... performance in 2013 reflects the strategic measures we have taken over the past three years," HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver said, referring to the bank's cost-cutting program which has reduced its worldwide staff total by 41,000 since 2011. "Today ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... year down, down and down 38.5%A Look ma, I can mine data too! Let's borrow Glum's (that Liliputian in "The Adventures of Gulliver" cartoon) line this time, "We're doomed, we'll never make it!" But wait, there's more! I'm not done scarin' the bejeesus ...

HSBC announces first int'l RMB bond

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... trading centre for the renminbi and is an early sign of the huge potential that this market represents," said Stuart Gulliver, group chief executive of HSBC. Reports have varied on the value of the bond ranging from RMB500 million to RMB1bn. Osborne ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...

HSBC's chief moves to Hong Kong

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... continue to be resident in the UK for tax purposes. The group chairman and two executive directors, Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver, will continue to be based in London. The UK Financial Services Authority remains the lead regulator of the group. The ...
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