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Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... intra-day trade before finally closing sharply unchanged. Either it doesn't know where to go next or is waiting for Chair Janet Yellen's yak tonight - who's unsure when to go. Ahh, but then she repeated and reiterated and echoed so many, many, times ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... instantly played in my head as soon as I read about what the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - the one that Fed Chair Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP Growth"! ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... it's that, it's blah, blah and blah. It was only last week when the head honcho of all central bank head honchos, Madam Janet, told the world that equity market valuations are presently "quite high", and what do we get? We get the S&P 500 index closing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... ground in the middle of the week after weaker-than-expected US economic data and a warning from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that stock valuations were "quite high". Tokyo stocks on Thursday fell 1.23 per cent after a three-day holiday. The ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... growth equals higher corporate profits equals higher share prices. Perhaps it's because of their lofty valuations. Aunt Janet even said so last night, that they are presently "quite high". But then qualified that, "Now, they're not so high when you compare ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing jobs data and a warning from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on high equity valuations. Locally on Thursday, official jobs figures for April are released, and the Australian Industry ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... year with a gentle nudge up and then back to data watching for the next gentle nudge and the next. But the longer Fed Chair Janet remains "not impatient" the greater our very own RBA Gov Glenn's headache. Speculations of a later-rather-than-sooner and ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... up, to a high of US$0.7870 last week (24 March) - despite the odds for an April rate cut firming up, but followed Madame Janet's "not impatient" quip. Checked on my Bloomberg screen again, A$ now up to US$0.7605 from US$0.7601 a few minutes ago and an ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... meet. But over the same period, the Australian dollar has only weakened by 2.8% versus the US dollar - no thanks to Madame Janet's dovish comments - and by 1.9% on a trade weighted basis. This ensures that, unless the A$ collapses between now and the ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... December 2008). Only Mr. Murphy - "anything can go wrong, will go wrong" - can stop it now. This, as much, was what Fed chair Janet L. Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve ...