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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 ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... grateful to Trump, the major central banks are too. In her first public outing since Trump, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave the clearest indication yet that it's all systems go for a rate hike in December. Finally, she can do what she intended ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... been asking for "fiscal support" in recent times. Speaking before the Economic Club of New York last 29 March, Fed Chair Yellen stated that, "It certainly would be helpful to see fiscal policy play a larger role." ECB president Draghi had for a long ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... some are still betting for at least one more at the other side of the New Year. This may very well be but to use Janet Yellen's words, it depends on the incoming data. In his first speech as RBA governor, Philip Lowe nominated three factors - excess ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen spoke about many things at that conference but one thing that caught my eye - one that took me back to my student days - was ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... expected path of interest rates for 2017 and 2018, sending the US dollar index down to 95.41 from 95.66 the day before. Santa Yellen's Xmas gift cheered Wall Street though -- the S&P 500 index closed 1.1% higher and the yield on 10-year US bonds down ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... off. Financial markets raised their bets for a September fed funds rate lift soon after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's two-day outing at Jackson Hole (25-26 August). Her words, "Indeed, in light of the continued solid performance of the labor ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... month of gains and matched market expectations. These would add to "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate" Yellen talked about at Jackson Hole. However, the latest update on inflation does not. The PCE price index slowed to 0.8% in the year ...

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 ...