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Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... it's not surprising that she's learned well... she's learnt the art of Fedspeak. Yes. "...since the July 2014 Monetary Policy Report, there has been important progress toward the FOMC's objective of maximum employment." No. "However, despite this improvement ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... coming our way tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - and her name is Janet. The Fed Chairman will be testifying on monetary policy before the Senate Banking Committee those days. Shouldn't markets be fretting about any surprises that could come out of ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... on its current assessment, the Committee judges that it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy". Though it noted that, "Market-based measures of inflation compensation have declined substantially in recent months" and ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... choice for the greenback but to go fly is there? The bifurcation (finally, got the chance to use the word) of monetary policy between the Fed - expected to raise interest rates sometime this year - and quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... August where he told his audience, "if that really would be helpful" he would cut rates, but "At the end of the day monetary policy can't be the engine for growth. We can help smooth out fluctuations but we can't drive growth". "... the thing that is ...

State Street appoints APAC head to global committee

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... Singapore Exchange where he was chief financial officer for eight years. Previously he held senior-level positions in the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Lehman Brothers and DBS.

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... over its QE withdrawal symptoms. For extrapolate further and normal organic growth means Fed normalisation of monetary policy which means Janet's "considerable time" before raising interest rates might not be so considerable anymore. Sure, sure there's ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... real GDP was still expected to rise faster than potential output in 2015 and 2016, supported by accommodative monetary policy and a further easing of the restraint on spending from changes in fiscal policy; in 2017, real GDP growth was projected to step ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... and analysis, and the Governing Council will closely monitor and continuously assess the appropriateness of its monetary policy stance. Should it become necessary." Why should it become necessary? There are two contingencies we look at. The first contingency ...

Investors should be wary of mixed USD signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Mixed signals coming from the US Fed's monetary policy committee should temper investors from overreacting to expectations of rising US rates and an increasing USD, noted Amundi Asset Management in its latest global investor update. Causing the ambiguity ...