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Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
Unlike the Greek tragedies of bailout past, investors appear to be taking a mind over matter attitude towards Grexit these days - that is, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. The performance of the markets' fear gauge - the VIX index - tells us so. ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... in August: This is what I wrote last 10 September: "Sure, sure. Are we talking about the same Janet Yellen here? The Fed Chair who not so long ago - at Jackson Hole - painstakingly explained why the Fed believes that there's still "significant" slack ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... definition of "considerable time" has become after they conclude their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. Could it be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's "...you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing" back in ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... base of US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen". Sure, sure. Are we talking about the same Janet Yellen here? The Fed Chair who not so long ago - at Jackson Hole - painstakingly explained why the Fed believes that there's still "significant" slack ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... social cohesion at threat, pressure on the central bank to respond invariably increases." The problem, according to Fed Chair Janet Yellen is: "The assessment of labor market slack is rarely simple and has been especially challenging recently. Estimates ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished mostly lower following a cautious appraisal of the US jobs market by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and a sharpening of tensions over Ukraine. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38.27 points on Friday (0.22 ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... dented investors' optimism. Why? In a word, Janet. She got us babe. Investors are positioning, er, buying, ahead of Fed Chair Janet Jackson Hole address. US inflation data -- headline inflation slowed to an annual rate of 2.0% in July from 2.1% in June ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... biotechnology "appear substantially stretched". The report was released in conjunction with congressional testimony by Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who said the central bank could implement interest rate increases "sooner and be more rapid than currently ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... steady 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 ...