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Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Uh-oh! Borrowing a quote from Robert Burns: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." It appears to be heading that way looking at the third quarter economic scorecard in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... 2.9% (from 2.7% predicted in December) - and two in 2020 - 3.4% (from 3.1% projected in December). Still, to quote Robert Burns, "The best laid out plans of mice and men often go awry." While Fed chief Powell noted that the potential for a trade war ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
"Suspense is worse than disappointment." -Robert Burns From today, we're getting more of it after Janet and her bunch of merry FOMC members decided to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" - Robert Burns Happy 2015 to all you gentlereaders. We're back in space - cyberspace that is - and, it seems, so are the economic and financial market uncertainties that littered the dying ...

EQT appoints Mercer as asset consultant

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... technology on a global scale, to meet the needs of both our institutional and retail businesses," EQT managing director Robert Burns said. "In particular, Mercer will work closely with George Boubouras in our newly created CIO role to help deliver consistent ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Street. Sure there is no certainty that the exit plan - when it comes due to implement - would be followed to a T. As Robert Burns' proverb once warned, "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, gang aft agley." But the message is loud and clear, the US ...
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