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China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... mean. Not to worry, 20 years is a long, long time, we have more pressing fishes to fry at the moment... like guessing what Yellen wants.

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... then shot up by 0.7% -- before closing flat (0.01%) while we slept. A number of blogeratti put the small bounce to Madam Yellen telling the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker of her confidence for the US economy. Sure, sure... this was already ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... highest since February this year - before closing at a still high 18.76. But, but... but isn't this a good thing? Mama Janet Yellen wants it because "...low levels of volatility may induce risk-taking behavior that for example entails excessive build-up ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... driving down prices. This triple impact on employment, economic growth and inflation is playing into the hands of Janet Yellen and her Federal Open Market Committee. Gerardo Rodriguez, senior investment strategist in BlackRock's emerging markets team ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... before the Fed starts raising interest rates would remain "considerable" as far as the eye can see... that, or mama Janet Yellen would be invoking a quote from the 1999 movie, 'The Sixth Sense' - A "I see dead people". Perhaps the Fed has found religion ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... 1958.43 points (down 0.5%) before closing a mere 0.2% down. Has mother lost her mojo? Perhaps she has. For even mama Janet Yellen, herself, told us at Jackson Hole that that "the decline in the unemployment rate over this period somewhat overstates the ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... chilling suspense and then at the end of the day... the good guy gets the girl and walks. Financial markets got nervy at Janet Yellen. Will she? Won't she? But despite the little excitement caused by the slight adjustment upwards of the "dots" in the ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... at the Jackson Hole in August: This is what I wrote last 10 September: "Sure, sure. Are we talking about the same Janet Yellen here? The Fed Chair who not so long ago - at Jackson Hole - painstakingly explained why the Fed believes that there's still ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... know, but just so there's no misunderstanding, these words are the words "considerable" and "time" - the words Aunt Janet Yellen had been consistently promising you, I and Irene about the when the fed funds rate would move. It was there last time the ...