Jerome W Fitch

March 26, 2024

FT GlobetrotterTips from the top

Cult Danish fashion label Rotate: our perfect Copenhagen weekend

...We’re avid vintage hunters, so Jerome Vintage on Vesterbrogade is a must-visit....

December 18, 2023

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

UnhedgedEthan Wu

Why the term premium is rising Premium

...In its US sovereign credit downgrade in August, Fitch blamed “a steady deterioration in standards of governance”, raising fears that political dysfunction might someday cause a missed bond repayment....

October 9, 2023

Due Diligence

The $17bn battle over Credit Suisse’s debt Premium

...(Axiom Alternative Investments’ Jérôme Legras’s Alphaville provides a helpful explainer.)...

March 23, 2023

The Long ViewKatie Martin

A soft landing is becoming a distant dream

...Or W-shaped, with a succession of setbacks? Or would it take an L-shape, with us all getting knocked down, unable to get up again?...

July 1, 2022

Transcript

Why the bond market matters now

...Katie Martin(Laughter) Jerome, stop trying to make the pivot happen. Not sure that works....

July 11, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

French politics

French diplomats strike against loss of status

...“My baker is not my butcher,” said Jérôme Douaud, a diplomat. “I don’t know anyone who is against the strike,” one former senior French diplomat told the Financial Times....

June 2, 2022

News in-depthAllianz SE

Allianz funds scandal hands US prosecutors a $6bn scalp

...“It’s hard to believe that such [bonuses] didn’t trigger some kind of audit by Allianz about how the team generated such returns,” said Jérôme Legras, head of research at investment company Axiom....

May 20, 2022

Federal Reserve

Fed leadership question risks adding new uncertainty to markets

...Powell, who was tapped by Donald Trump in early November 2017 to lead the Fed and previously served as a top Treasury official under George H W Bush, has already won the backing of a number of Republican...

November 8, 2021

Federal Reserve succession

‘A dangerous man’: the messy politics of Fed chair nominations

...George W Bush George W Bush came into office in 2001 with Alan Greenspan serving in his fourth term as chair of the Fed....

November 12, 2021

US politics & policy

Mnuchin defends ending crisis lending tools amid split with Fed

...Mr Summers said Mr Mnuchin’s action was “just the opposite” of how Hank Paulson, the Treasury secretary under George W Bush, handled the White House transition during the financial crisis after the 2008...

November 20, 2020

Federal Reserve

Fed’s Powell is chief cheerleader for fiscal stimulus

...Throughout most of their tenures Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan advocated deficit reduction and balanced budgets, even though the latter gave guarded approval to George W Bush’s tax cuts....

October 11, 2020

US presidential election 2020

Trump campaign faces uphill battle in legal fight over votes

...Judge Paul Diamond, who was appointed by George W Bush, pointedly responded: “I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?”...

November 6, 2020

Unhedged

The art of dangling the ‘easing’ carrot Premium

...Charles Seville, co-head of Americas Sovereigns at Fitch Ratings, says: “In cutting rates by a quarter-point . . ....

July 31, 2019

ESG investing

Money market fund managers bet on a surge in demand for ESG products

...“[W]e feel like the validity of our [credit analysis] process now, with this new input from Hermes, is even better than what it has been historically,” Debbie Cunningham, Federated’s chief investment officer...

October 21, 2019

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

Monetary policy

Central bankers seek fresh policy tools to combat slowdown

...According to Fitch Ratings, more than a third of central banks have eased in the past six months, the most abrupt shift since 2009. Growth has slowed in China and collapsed in Germany....

August 21, 2019

US trade

Fed officials voice concern about Trump tariffs

...Economists say George W Bush’s steel tariffs in 2002 did more economic harm than good, with one study commissioned by the consuming industries pointing to 200,000 job losses resulting from higher steel prices...

March 4, 2018

Equities

Markets not live, Monday 2nd March 2020

...[W]ith the wave of liquidity that has been unleashed to contain the Coronavirus, plus a yield gap that is already above 1.5%, we suspect that the market could break through all-time highs in this scenario...

March 2, 2020

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed is far from finished

...US presidents have form in pressing central bank chiefs to hold down rates — George H W Bush and Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker, Lyndon Johnson and William McChesney Martin....

November 30, 2018

FT Swamp Notes

Patriotic capitalism, take two

...But your note, and the somewhat passive aggressive email you received from Coke, reminded me of a quip attributed to Michael Boskin, George H.W....

May 27, 2019

News in-depthGlobal Economy

Federal Reserve faces key decisions as balance sheet shrinks

...Fitch says that after basically stabilising in 2017, the Fed balance sheet will shrink by around $315bn this year and $437bn in 2019 as it allows assets it has been holding to mature....

September 10, 2018

Equities

Markets Now - Monday 16th March 2020

...Fitch’s negative outlook revision on Friday confirmed those estimates as they moved their YE20 outlook up by $6-8B toward $40B vs. their $32-34B January target....

March 16, 2020

US financial regulation

Donald Trump nominates Clarida and Bowman for Fed board

...Mr Clarida also worked at the US Treasury department during George W Bush’s presidency....

April 16, 2018

Central bank intervention

Trump interventions on Fed policy risk unsettling markets

...Marc Sumerlin of Evenflow Macro, a former White House official under George W Bush, said the statements were early warning signs....

April 20, 2018

Life & Arts

Dallas strikes it rich with rising property prices

...According to Fitch Ratings, the Dallas-Fort Worth area remains the third most overvalued housing market in the US, behind Las Vegas and Portland, with prices 14 per cent higher than they should be (Seattle...

September 28, 2018

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