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James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... doubt and not doubting his guesses. You know what they say, "in a world of fools, the sane man is the fool". But Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the nine "voting" members of the FOMC are certainly no fools - dear James is a non-voting member. And only last ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... markets after mostly ticking up on Thursday in response to the Fed's broadly upbeat outlook on the US economy and chief Janet Yellen's dovish comments on inflation. Her outlook that inflation will not get out of control raised the likelihood US interest ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... growth remains not good enough for the Fed, monetary policy would remain good for markets. Lest you, I and Irene forget, Aunt Janet is still printing US$45 billion this month and would continue printing US$35 billion in July. Yes, yes, yo. The Fed's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... markets after mostly ticking up on Thursday in response to the Fed's broadly upbeat outlook on the US economy and chief Janet Yellen's dovish comments on inflation. Her outlook that inflation will not get out of control raised the likelihood US interest ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... from minus 0.15 in April to plus 0.21 in May.... and get this, these improvements are happening at the same time that Aunt Janet Yellenhas been taking away US$10 billion a month for the yankee-doodle-dandys to play with. While it's quite the opposite ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Who said you can't teach new tricks to an old dog? So sowee, I'm not in any way calling dear Aunt Janet Yellen a dog and most certainly not old... it's just that it's the first thing that came to my fast thinning scalp when I was clicking over what ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... growth like this (er, contraction), there's no reason to expect anything else but a spring back in spring. (There's also Aunt Janet ready to pounce if it doesn't - "monetary policy is not on a pre-set course"). More so, because more up-to-date US economic ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... bonds." Spoken like a true bond man, eh? El-Arian seems to have covered all the bases. But it could also be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's forward guidance -- that "a high degree of monetary accommodation remains warranted" and the FOMC would not be in ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... yields were to move sharply higher," on the other hand, "a more cautious approach might be warranted." Yes we've all heard Janet tell us this so many times before - it depends on the trajectory of economic growth and inflation. But what we haven't heard ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... their 2014 lows versus Uncle Sam's money to date. That's right! That's because the Fed is not taking these moves lying down. Janet Yellen may have said a lotta things in her two-day gabfest to the US Congress last week but the bottom line is that taper ...