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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... guidance... and expanding it "This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments."... ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... 2012. That no longer applies. It's not a trigger. Yellen's Fed would now be "looking at a broad range of data on the labor market, including unemployment, job creation and many other indicators of labor market performance". So much for forward guidance ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... soon. Forget the January employment report that showed the jobless rate falling to 6.6% because "the recovery in the labor market is far from complete" and that the Fed "would be looking at a broad range of data on the labor market, including unemployment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... expects to continue predecessor Ben Bernanke's plan to scale back stimulus and keep interest rates low until the labor market improves significantly. LONDON - European stock markets enjoyed solid gains after new Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... Unemployment is down from a peak of 10 percent, but at 7.3 percent in October, it is still too high, reflecting a labor market and economy performing far short of their potential." Yup, growth is growing good but still not good enough. But...but, but ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... "Unemployment is down from a peak of 10 percent, but at 7.3 percent in October, it is still too high, reflecting a labor market and economy performing far short of their potential." Inflation. I recall from my earlier days as an economist (and still ...

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... Unemployment is down from a peak of 10 percent, but at 7.3 percent in October, it is still too high, reflecting a labor market and economy performing far short of their potential. At the same time, inflation has been running below the Federal Reserve's ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... September non-taper, the Fed told us that, "The Committee sees the downside risks to the outlook for the economy and labor market as having diminished, on net, since last fall, but the tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... the Fed had lost its way. Poole predicts that the great unwind, or 'the taper caper', is still some way off with labor market figures disappointing, business fixed investment lagging behind. He added that regulatory and tax uncertainty were a disincentive ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... FOMC meeting contained the same old song: "Many members indicated that further improvement in the outlook for the labor market would be required before it would be appropriate to slow the pace of asset purchases." But "Several members judged that a reduction ...

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