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Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Eurozone and China. The BOJ meets on 30 October. But before this, we get to hear and read and parse and dissect the words of Janet Yellen after the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets on 27-28 October. While no one(not even a mouse) ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... sure that it we'll not only see mommy kissing Santa Mario on 3 December, daddy too. But before this, we'll hear the Fed's Janet Christmas offering - will she be naughty or nice? - after the FOMC's 27-28 October meeting. Nobody, not even a mouse, expects ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... had priced in the hike, the Fed pulled back and decided to hold the decision for at least another month. The Fed's chair Janet Yellen voiced concerns about the volatility that China triggered in August and about global market instability more broadly. ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
She was damned when she didn't, she would have been damned now if she did. "Perhaps Janet Yellen has heard us," as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde French journal 'Les Echos' just over a week after the Fed kept the status quo following their ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

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. ...