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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 ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... happy trading the other day, does it not Virginia? Instead of the headlined the US economy is stronger now so, yes you can Janet. Do it... in September? Sure, sure. If so, then Wall Street would have rallied even harder while we when the first look at ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... rationales for the whys and the wherefores of September, October, November, December or March 2016. Nobody, it seems, listened to Janet's comforting words said many, many times before that the when is not important, what's more important is that the ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... sang for two consecutive days but "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". The S&P 500 index fell all of 0.07% when Janet testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the 15th, but more likely than not this was due to the deadline ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... 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 first ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... "consequences" outside of the US that could come back to bite the US in the behind. Thanks Christine. That other lady - Janet Yellen - came back with, "you don't tell me how to run my show dear lady"! Well, she was more polite: "I want to emphasize ...