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Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... to decipher codes, no guessing what the Fed was implying, no Fedspeak, the minutes from the Fed's 16-17 September FOMC meeting were explicit. "Some participants expressed concern that the persistent shortfall of economic growth and inflation in the euro ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... remain well anchored." Did you see the words in the statement? Would we see it again at the conclusion of this month's FOMC meeting... or not? The currency markets think 'or not', thereby sending the US dollar higher and higher. As per Reuters, "The ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... how less considerable its definition of "considerable time" has become after they conclude their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. Could it be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's "...you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... making sure that it pays to buy the dips. Would Aunt Janet reinforce this message again mid-week this week after the FOMC meeting? The short answer is, "presumably yes". On second thought, make that "logically yes" for what does it profit the Fed if ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... to the growth outlook that's more important. We'll know these also come mid-week after the Fed concludes its 29-30 FOMC meeting. Current betting is that it'll be a continuation of steady as she goes - with relatively minor changes to the Fed statement ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... horses, hang on a moment! Isn't that day coming soon (for the US, at least)? Didn't the minutes of the 17-18 June FOMC meeting "forward guided" you, I and Irene that the end of QE is coming following the Fed's October meeting? "If the economy progresses ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... with the central bank offering almost perpetual succour or for as long as they could. The minutes of the Fed's 17-18 FOMC meeting reminded us of this and chances are Aunt Janet Yellen would repeat that now all too familiar refrain, "... that it likely ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... - it picked up to 84.9 in April from 84.8. Overall this is good news. It leaves the Fed - which begins its 2-day FOMC meeting today - no option but to leave the current trajectory of its policy withdrawal as it had been over the past few months. That ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Minute to win it!... or rather the minutes of the Fed's 18-19 March FOMC meeting win it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped by 1.1% and yesterday's hated Nasdaq is now loved again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... index climbing to 33 from 32.4. And the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold? Well, that's already been thrashed last FOMC meeting but she went further last night.A "Most of my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I estimate that the unemployment ...