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Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... have been increased. Slightly more than 26% agreed with the Fed, citing sluggish U.S. or global economic growth." But then Janet spoke last week saying, "Most FOMC participants, including myself, currently anticipate that achieving these conditions will ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Too bad for Wall Street, the closing bell has already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... Capital, Eric Green, saying that, "There's some concern that the Fed sees something we're not seeing in the data." Yes Eric, Janet sees dead people. Read the statement again, "Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has delayed the interest rate lift off; supporting Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass' view that tightening will be drawn out over many years. Presenting to some 800 advisers at Sydney's Westin Hotel ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
"Suspense is worse than disappointment." -Robert Burns From today, we're getting more of it after Janet and her bunch of merry FOMC members decided to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... full week from today to make up its mind and us, lesser mortals, the same time to speculate and rumour-monger about what on Janet and Co's mind. To lift of not to lift this month, that is the overriding question. The recent volatility in the world's ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... the participation rate - steady at 62.6% -- in July offered little guidance. But the other unemployment measures - Madam Janet's measure of labour market slack - show that there's still labour market slack. Although it has come down from 10.5% in June ...

FSC awards industry execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... last night at Movie World, on the Gold Coast. The eight winners were Perpetual senior risk manager Alan Lewitton, AMP's Janet Beale, MLC Stronger Super development manager Jim Baker, BT Financial Group superannuation program manager Matthew Thomas, Commonwealth ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... hike isn't that big of a deal - Yellen told us so - what matters more is the speed and depth of subsequent ones. And here, Janet assured us that it would be slow and shallow. How slow? How shallow? It depends on the data... and whether next month's lift ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... about a pay increase. With 10% of the labour pool unemployed, they are the lucky ones. And so we come to the slack that Janet's been talkin' 'bout. With the unemployment rate at 5.3%, that slack should have narrowed - big time - at worst. At current ...