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Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... Yes Virginia, we've heard and read all these before. But it could not be denied that Madam Yellen will be leaving the US economy in much better shape than it was when she assumed office on the 3rd of February 2014. The US economy grew by 1.7% in the ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... shorts that, time and again in the current cycle, have eggs on their faces and are forced to cover. To be sure, the US economy is growing strong and company earnings are too. According to Factset's 'Earnings Insight' report (released last Friday), "For ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... the Fed could afford to do just that were it not for the still missing pick-up in inflation. This is also because the US economy's growth momentum is strengthening for its consumers are spending. In Economics 101, we were taught that gross domestic product ...

Impact Investment Group names new CEO

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
Impact Investment Group appointed a former JBWere executive as its new chief executive after co-founder Chris Lock departed from the position in September. Daniel Madhavan will take the post in January 2018. He was most recently the founding chief executive ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... December) and shrinking the balance sheet starting in October. Certainly, the tax cuts would provide an extra boost to the US economy when it comes (and it will). Even the Fed acknowledged this very early this year. According to the Fed's January 2017 ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... new Fed head, low volatility in the financial markets (read, complacency), perhaps even "irrational exuberance" - the US economy proceeds as it had been doing since the last Fed meet...one of strong growth and low inflation, that ensures that the Fed ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... that would be generated by the tax cuts would offset the toll on the deficit. That may well be but given where the US economy is currently at - near or full employment - it's not needed. Inflation may still be below target and would be given a boost ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... years. The Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data confirmed the very strong demand for labour in the US economy. The JOLTS report showed that job openings rose by 11.3% to a record high 6.163 million in June but the number of "hires" are ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... US dollar in the second half of last year - on rate hike expectations - may have weakened the growth momentum in the US economy and that of inflation, prompting speculations of gentler policy normalisation. The reverse is happening in Australia where ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... that was reinforced only last week by the release of the US non-farm payrolls report. The latest report showed the US economy added 222,000 jobs in June - much more than the expected 170,000 gain - and revisions to the prior two months saw an additional ...