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You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... to 1/4 percent will" NO LONGER "be appropriate". That 6.5% number was first set in paper after the December 2012 FOMC meeting when the unemployment rate stood at 7.8%. In a document titled, " How does forward guidance about the Federal Reserve's target ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... -Queen With the rout in emerging markets continuing, all eyes, ears and noses will be on the US Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting - Chairman Ben Bernanke's last - tonight. Here we go again folks, the coin toss that is would they? won't they?...continue ...

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... year, as long as the economy doesn't disappoint". That was back on the 7th of June - a few days before the 18-19 FOMC meeting. "I started a joke, which started the whole world crying..." (Bee Gees). And sure enough, though Uncle Ben's June statement ...

Nothing below seven percent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... gets me thinking, why couldn't anything come out of the right field?), this would go on and on until the Fed's next FOMC meeting in August...and most definitely, in September. But try as the headlines might, there's nothing negative that they could spin ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... triggers to let the bears out...woof, woof, woof, woof (oops sorry wrong species). The minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC meeting contained the same old song: "Many members indicated that further improvement in the outlook for the labor market would be required ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... that their respective monetary policies would remain stimulative for a while longer. The minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC meeting could produce another bout of financial market volatility when it's released later this week (10 July) - depending on how ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... interpretation. And then we'll have to go through this whole episode again for another month or so until the next FOMC meeting on July 30 & 31 or the next (September 17 & 18) or the next...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... interpreters" (Wealth Building Strategies in Energy, Metals and Other Markets). The minutes of the 30April- 1 May FOMC meeting was clear enough. "Most observed that the outlook for the labor market had shown progress since the program was started in ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... equity markets. Wall Street's running up and setting new record highs along the way. The release of the Fed's March FOMC meeting was last night's big news. It told a tale of the Fed explicitly discussing an exit strategy or perhaps "slow the pace of ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. Just imagine if suddenly...Uncle Ben ...