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Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
The absence of fresh threat tweets from the US president has allowed me to take a fresh look at the US non-farm payrolls report released over the weekend. It was good. Nah, it was excellent, the stuff of every central bank's dream. US non-farm payrolls ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... Reserve policymakers began to normalise both the level of interest rates and the size of the balance sheet. Together, chair Yellen and I have worked to ensure a smooth leadership transition and provide for continuity in monetary policy." But more than ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... her credibility (after, all most major world central banks are also dumbfounded by this modern day development). Chair Yellen added that: "What we need to figure out is whether the factors that have lowered inflation are likely to prove persistent" and ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... unwinding of its balance sheet. But here too, there's nothing to fear. Liquidity won't dry up abruptly. Instead, as Chair Yellen revealed when asked about the balance sheet last June, it will be like "watching paint dry". Yellen expects QE taper to "to ...

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 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... reading. The NFIB notes that: "Owners remain very pessimistic about the economy, a view unfortunately reinforced by Fed Chair Yellen's back peddling on the timing of the next rate hike. She seems to be afraid of something, and this only adds to uncertainty ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... period" of three years". Perhaps Gov Carney is also waiting to see what happens to see how financial markets react when Chair Yellen does. But while they wait - Carney on Yellen and Yellen on the data and financial markets - the Australian dollar would ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... the second month in a row under 200,000, as the petroleum sector downturn continued to pinch the labour market. Fed Chair Yellen, addressing a conference on lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, characterised US stock market valuations as "quite high" ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... as she goes - either of which by the by, give us the same end that we saw last night. This is because I also Fed Chair Yellen's yellin' three months ago, when she told you, I and Irene about the "considerable slack" in the labour market. "Large numbers ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... worries of a new bubble and fears that tensions with Russia could worsen over the weekend. In addition, Federal Reserve Chair Yellen gave the markets support in a speech in which she underlined that unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy ...
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