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Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... chain and driving down prices. This triple impact on employment, economic growth and inflation is playing into the hands of Janet Yellen and her Federal Open Market Committee. Gerardo Rodriguez, senior investment strategist in BlackRock's emerging markets ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... time" before the Fed starts raising interest rates would remain "considerable" as far as the eye can see... that, or mama Janet Yellen would be invoking a quote from the 1999 movie, 'The Sixth Sense' - A "I see dead people". Perhaps the Fed has found ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... of 1958.43 points (down 0.5%) before closing a mere 0.2% down. Has mother lost her mojo? Perhaps she has. For even mama Janet Yellen, herself, told us at Jackson Hole that that "the decline in the unemployment rate over this period somewhat overstates ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... chilling suspense and then at the end of the day... the good guy gets the girl and walks. Financial markets got nervy at Janet Yellen. Will she? Won't she? But despite the little excitement caused by the slight adjustment upwards of the "dots" in the ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... longer-run goal, and provided that longer-term inflation expectations remain well anchored." And for good measure, Chair Janet explained that "considerable time" is not calendar wink wink nudge nudge but that "It is highly conditional, and it is linked ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... you know, but just so there's no misunderstanding, these words are the words "considerable" and "time" - the words Aunt Janet Yellen had been consistently promising you, I and Irene about the when the fed funds rate would move. It was there last time ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... 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 type of thing" back in ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... as the Australian Financial Review (AFR) prints, "The San Francisco Fed is the home base of US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen". Sure, sure. Are we talking about the same Janet Yellen here? The Fed Chair who not so long ago - at Jackson Hole ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... that the Fed's "considerable time" before raising interest rates won't be so considerable any longer. But nah, not after Janet's Jackson Hole detailed elaboration for the remaining "slack", the "under-utilisation" in the labour market. No sir. Speaking ...