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Fed to ban policymakers stock, bond trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
The Federal Reserve is restricting the investing activities of policymakers and senior staff, including banning them from holding or trading individual stocks and bonds. Following a review and recent scandal, the Federal Reserve has moved to prohibit ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... think so too. Fed vice chairman Richard Clarida noted that the Fed is monitoring progress of the coronavirus while Dallas Fed president Robert Kaplan admitted that there's still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the disease. However, both stressed ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... Robert Kaplan has been reading my daily rants? That would be too presumptuous of moi but Factset's report that "Dallas Fed President Kaplan (nonvoter) told the WSJ the recent yield-curve inversion could be a signal to lower rates, but depends on ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... Goldilocks state of monetary, neither accommodative nor restrictive. An essay on "The Neutral Rate of Interest" by Dallas Fed president Robert Kaplan (published late last month) appears to justify the 3% rate. I've cut pasted his chart showing the ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... remind. Fortunately, the Fed (or one of them) is on the ball. In his essay on "A Balanced Approach to Monetary Policy", Dallas Fed Robert S. Kaplan, listed "measures of potential financial excess." "The US stock market capitalisation now stands at approximately ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
US Dallas Fed manufacturing survey Consistent with the significant improvement in recent surveys in the US regions of Philadelphia, Richmond, Kansas City and New York, the Dallas Fed general business activity index surged to a reading of 10.2 in November ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... afterwards. But this had more to do with upped expectations that the Fed is sure to lift interest rates, prompted by Dallas Fed president Richard Fischer's comment that the Fed should promptly start raising interest rates before the economy reaches full ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... decide to begin to reduce its $US85 billion-a-month asset-purchase program. One of them, Richard Fisher, the head of the Dallas Fed, told CNBC that the Fed's balance sheet has become "bloated" and warned that "at some point, we will have to taper back ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... remains below 2.5 percent and longer-term inflation expectations remain well anchored". Last and certainly not least, Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher warned the "feral hogs" of the financial markets against fighting the Fed. "We haven't forgotten ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... last night - new family home sales rose 7.6% in May (more than expected and the fastest pace since April 2010) and the Dallas Fed business activity index jumped to 5.8 in June against minus 5.1 in the previous month and expectations for a 0 reading - ...
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