Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 197 results for "Fed Chair"

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... magazine, "...two previous Fed chairmen, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, used... to signal major shifts in policy." Fed Chair Janet Yellen would be 'persona non attending' but this year's topic, "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" will provide ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... months of 2015 on Fed lift-off speculations - they will, they won't this year. The latest rumour on the mill is that Fed Chair Janet Yellen would start before 2015 is over: "I expect that it will be appropriate at some point later this year to take the ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... more - brings the Fed's finger on lift-off button closer. Note that the Fed's also watching the unfolding Greek saga. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told us so only last week. In her press statement after the conclusion of the 2-day FOMC meeting (16-17 June) ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... the House of Representatives financial services committee." Thank you Yahoo News. And then there's this statement from Fed Chair Janet Yellen after the conclusion of their 2-day FOMC gabest: "...Greece and its creditors are faced with very difficult ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... and what that reveals about the economy." This was the last iteration of "data dependent" you, I and Irene heard from Fed Chair Janet Yellen when she spoke before the Providence Chamber of Commerce in Rhode Island on the 22nd of May about well... the ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... song instantly played in my head as soon as I read about what the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - the one that Fed Chair Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... April, 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 ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... this year with a gentle nudge up and then back to data watching for the next gentle nudge and the next. But the longer Fed Chair Janet remains "not impatient" the greater our very own RBA Gov Glenn's headache. Speculations of a later-rather-than-sooner ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... December 2008). Only Mr. Murphy - "anything can go wrong, will go wrong" - can stop it now. This, as much, was what Fed chair Janet L. Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... stocks mostly rose as investors awaited details of a Greek reform package crucial to an extension of its bailout and with Fed chair Janet Yellen's upcoming congressional testimony also in focus. Tokyo added 0.74 per cent, or 136.56 points, to end at ...