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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... implement only in mid-2015. Brent Schutte, market strategist at BMO Global Asset, said stocks accelerated their gains after the FOMC minutes did not imply a faster time-table to raising rates. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rose as traders digested ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... night. But have no fear the Fed is here. This, at least, is what could be gleaned from New York Fed president - and voting FOMC member -- William Dudley's speech before the New York Association for Business Economics overnight. Though what Dudley said ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) decision last night, there was nothing new. It's measured taper as she goes: "... the Committee decided to make a further ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... is good - 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. ...

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
... than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" after the Fed purchase programme ends contained in the 19 March FOMC statement to mean "... you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing". Not ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... age) Janet Yellen wants them to understand. If only they followed Janet's advice and read the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement studiously before shooting. Janet advised not to read too much into the "dots" when asked about the "dots" plotting ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... get a glimpse of what the Fed thinks of all this - and China's feared slowdown - when its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets this Tuesday and Wednesday. One thing's for sure though, the Fed will deduct another US$10 bil from its monthly asset ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... may be keeping policy steady as she goes, but Fed Chairman Yellen had to swerve on forward guidance. Go back to January's FOMC statement (Bennie's last and which I'm sure she signed on). It's there in black and white: "The Committee also reaffirmed its ...