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US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... of all these and punctuated by the firm anchor of the Fed's zero interest rate policy (ZIRP). Moreover, there's also Fed Chair Janet Yellen's repeated assurances that the Fed would take a softly softly approach when the US central bank eventually decided ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... the doubt and not doubting his guesses. You know what they say, "in a world of fools, the sane man is the fool". But Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the nine "voting" members of the FOMC are certainly no fools - dear James is a non-voting member. And only ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... longer-maturity bonds." Spoken like a true bond man, eh? El-Arian seems to have covered all the bases. But it could also be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's forward guidance -- that "a high degree of monetary accommodation remains warranted" and the FOMC ...

Janet puts it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... opening bell. The S&P 500 index's strong open quickly gave way to weakness - falling by as much as 0.4% -- and then Fed Chair Janet Yellen spoke and "whispers a comforting word," or two... and then it was on, risk on! The S&P 500 closed 0.6% on the up. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... Supply Management that showed US manufacturing activity rose in March. Investors are also heartened by comments from Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Monday that suggest no "abrupt" change to US monetary policy that has been supporting the economy, Hogan said. ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
A change of noun is all it took. Yes Virginia, by just changing the noun that followed the word "considerable", Fed Chair Janet Yellen put the smile back on many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... economy's recovery. At 0855 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up four points at 5,397. The Fed chair's comments, in a speech in Chicago, underlined that unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy and that the ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... (currently at 6.7%) would fall to between 5.6% and 5.9% by end-2015, from 5.8% and 6.1% predicted in December. This, despite Fed Chair Janet Yellen herself telling you, I and Irene not to read too much into the "dot points" (the projections shown on ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Janet, Janet, she's our man... if she can't do it no one can. Janet's in the house (House Financial Services Committee) and she came bearing gifts (gift of gab) for Wall Street... and Wall Street heard that it was good. What Wall Street heard: Taper ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Could it be? Could it be that the list of all good and wonderful stats I presented over the past two days on this space -- that suggested that the global economy as we know it is gathering momentum -- sank deeper into the consciousness of practitioners ...