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Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... months. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. But chances are she's calling it as she sees it. Thus, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's eagerly anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services offered ...

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 ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
Two days before lift-off. But in case there's still any doubt, allow me to replay what US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told the US Congress' Joint Economic Committee only less than a forthnight ago: "... I anticipate continued economic growth ...

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 ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... and China. The BOJ meets on 30 October. But before this, we get to hear and read and parse and dissect the words of Janet Yellen after the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets on 27-28 October. While no one(not even a mouse) expects ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... priced in the hike, the Fed pulled back and decided to hold the decision for at least another month. The Fed's chair Janet Yellen voiced concerns about the volatility that China triggered in August and about global market instability more broadly. Ironically ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
She was damned when she didn't, she would have been damned now if she did. "Perhaps Janet Yellen has heard us," as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde French journal 'Les Echos' just over a week after the Fed kept the status quo following their ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... forecast of 3.8% for next year is not either. At issue is slowing growth in emerging economics (i.e. China)". "Perhaps Janet Yellen has heard us," Madam Lagarde also told the journal, referring of course to the Fed's indecision decision on interest rates ...