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A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... expect the Fed to give interest rates another gentle lift. Rate hike speculations gathered momentum after Fed Chair Janet Yellen testified before the Senate Banking Committee (14 Feb) and the House Financial Services Committee (15 Feb). In her testimony ...

Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
The latest activity and inflation figures out of the US fit in nicely with Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Talking about "The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them", Yellen all but confirmed ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many words (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks at ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... fallen by 49% from the Brexit-induced spike that sent it to a four-month high of 25.76. Although contrary to Fed chair Janet Yellen's expectations for an upward revision in the May estimate, it was lowered to a mere 11,000 gain from the initially reported ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... series lead domestic employment growth by about 3-6 months. US Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) US Fed chair Janet Yellen and a few of her fellow feds downplayed last week's vastly disappointing employment report - a mere 38K jobs added in May versus ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... longer-run goal". We'll get an updated insight into the Fed's thinking about all these when no less than Fed Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee (Wednesday) and the Senate Banking Committee (Thursday) this week. ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... over the course of the following year and thereafter. Still, I cannot help but be amazed at how deftly Fed Chair Janet Yellen pulled lift-off off - more so, if viewed in contrast with the ECB President Mario Draghi's disastrous handling of his own "policy ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession." This is what Fed Chair Janet Yellen told the Economic Club of Washington last night - the same words that the Joint Economic Committee would hear when she testifies ...

A December lift if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... transitory factors fading -- that inflation will move up to 2 percent." These were the words that came out of Fed Chair Janet Yellen's lips when she testified before the House Financial Services Committee last night that suggest a December lift-off remains ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... following their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. Perhaps, but Wall Street and the world weren't pleased when Fed Chair Janet Yellen maintained the suspense over the timing of the very first US interest rate hike in nine years -- underscored by the S&P 500 ...