Martin Barnes
Managing Editor
BCA RESEARCH
Mr. Barnes joined BCA Research in late 1987 and since mid-1993 has been Managing Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst, the company’s flagship service. This highly respected monthly publication provides analysis and forecasts of the outlook for the U.S. financial markets and economic conditions. The publication’s large subscriber base includes financial institutions, corporations, high net worth individuals, and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Barnes was Managing Editor of The BCA Interest Rate Forecast.
As Managing Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst, Mr. Barnes’ research and writings cover a broad spectrum of subjects of relevance to investors. He speaks frequently at conferences in North America and overseas and is quoted regularly in the financial press.
Prior to joining BCA, Mr. Barnes spent ten years as Chief International Economist with a major U.K. stockbroker and from 1973 to 1977 he was an economist with British Petroleum in London.
Mr. Barnes is a member of the National Association of Business Economists, and the Montreal Society of Financial Analysts. He received his economics degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and has lived in Canada since November 1987.
BCA Research is a major provider of global financial market research. Its many research publications and Internet-based services cover the full range of financial assets and these can be supplemented with consulting arrangements.
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THE world is only beginning to count the cost of the bust. In America the share of household and consumer debt alone went up from 100% of GDP on 1980 to 173% today, equivalent to around $6 trillion of extra borrowing, according to Martin Barnes of BCA Research, a Canadian investment-research firm. Chart 6, from Merrill Lynch, shows the growing burden on households. Some of this extra debt was the healthy outcome of a deepening financial system. It was bearable while households appeared to be getting richer, thanks to inflating house and share prices. But now it has become too much of a burden.
2008
Saturday 27 September 2008 Nymox announced in June the appointment of Martin H. Barnes to the Nymox Board of Directors. Mr. Barnes is Managing Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst, a highly respected and widely read investment publication. Prior to joining The Bank Credit Analyst Research Group in 1987, Mr. Barnes was the Chief Economist at Wood Mackenzie, a leading Edinburgh brokerage firm (1977-1987) and an economist at British Petroleum in London (1973-1977). He has published extensively and speaks frequently to major investment audiences throughout the world. annn
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MARTIN H. BARNES
Managing Editor The Bank Credit Analyst
Mr. Barnes joined BCA Publications Ltd. in late 1987 and since mid-1993 has been Managing
Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst. This highly respected monthly publication provides analysis
and forecasts of the outlook for the U.S. financial markets and economic conditions. The
publication’s large subscriber base includes high net worth individuals, banks, brokers, money
managers, other financial institutions, corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and
abroad. Before July 1993, Mr. Barnes was Managing Editor of The BCA Interest Rate Forecast.
As Managing Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst, Mr. Barnes’ research and writings cover a broad
spectrum of subjects of relevance to investors. He speaks frequently at conferences in North
America and overseas and is quoted regularly in the financial press.
Prior to joining BCA, he spent ten years as Chief International Economist with a major U.K.
stockbroker where he was responsible for forecasting economic and financial market trends.
From 1973 to 1977 he was an economist in the Corporate Planning Department at the British
Petroleum Company in London.
Mr. Barnes has a B.A. Honours in Economics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
Scotland. He has lived in Canada since November 1987.
Sunday 30 March 2008 Why Worry? - Interview - Kathryn M. Welling
An Interview With Martin H. Barnes ~ Surveying the complacency he's seeing all around Wall Street and Main Street despite the market's recent little record-setting dipsy-doodle, the managing editor of Montreal's Bank Credit Analyst is not comforted. Indeed, when we caught up with Martin last week in Austin, Texas, where he was about to make a presentation to clients, the self-styled "dour Scotsman" uttered a comment more revealing even than the kilt he sometimes dons. The intellectual content of much recent market commentary has been on a par with the "What, Me Worry?" of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, Martin ...
March 19, 2008
What went wrong
The seeds of today's disaster were sown in the 1980s, when financial services began a pattern of growth that may only now have come to an end. In a recent study Martin Barnes of BCA Research, a Canadian economic-research firm, traces the rise of the American financial-services industry's share of total corporate profits, from 10% in the early 1980s to 40% at its peak last year (see chart 1). Its share of stockmarket value grew from 6% to 19%. These proportions look all the more striking—even unsustainable—when you note that financial services account for only 15% of corporate America's gross value added and a mere 5% of private-sector jobs.
Monday, March 10 Sun has set on banks' golden age, firm says
25 years of unprecedented prosperity. Financial sector faces much leaner times, Montreal's Bank Credit Analyst predicts
..."The blow-up in the markets for subprime paper and other structured products represents a watershed event in the financial markets," said Martin Barnes, managing editor of Bank Credit Analyst. "Financial shares will likely lead the next equity market upleg, but any outperformance will be fleeting. The financial sector's share of corporate profits and market capitalization is set to shrink significantly in the coming years."
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BCAresearch.com. GIC/PCBE Luncheon. Philadelphia.
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Friday 6 November 1998 Financial fortune-tellers
Market-forecasting publication is among the
world's oldest, most influential DON MACDONALD
Martin Barnes is not in a
profession given to
exuberance, but when the
economist talks about his
work as managing editor
of the Bank Credit
Analyst, he positively
bubbles with enthusiasm.
Speed bump ahead. But bank does not foresee recession
Canada's economy is not headed for a recession,
despite a slowdown in growth next year, the
Bank of Montreal says in its annual economic
forecast.
"The Canadian economy will be driven by
continued expansion in the U.S. and a low
Canadian dollar," Tim O'Neill, the bank's chief
economist, said in releasing the forecast
yesterday.
"Low long-term interest rates may also provide
support to consumer and investment spending."
On the world economy, George Archer of BCA has sent along a fascinating piece on the Japanese bank bailout
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