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"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 ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... banking, legal, insurance, home furnishings, home decors, white goods, black goods, building raw material suppliers, etc. Aunt Janet certainly won't want to disrupt this virtuous cycle by saying something stupid at the Hole. Especially not when - despite ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... December 2007 - from an already strong 86.4 in the previous month - the second highest since January 2008. Couldn't be Aunt Janet. She's expected to announce the Fed's continued benevolence towards you, I and Irene after the conclusion of the FOMC's ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... were 0.38 percent in 2009." It pays to buy the dips because the Fed is making sure that it pays to buy the dips. Would Aunt Janet reinforce this message again mid-week this week after the FOMC meeting? The short answer is, "presumably yes". On second ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... succour or for as long as they could. The minutes of the Fed's 17-18 FOMC meeting reminded us of this and chances are Aunt Janet Yellen would repeat that now all too familiar refrain, "... that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... increase". Then again, if the majority of the 500 listed companies fail to beat this, I'll bet my right (eye)balls that Aunt Janet Yellen would and... she could. You, I and Irene were reminded again of this again last night with the release of the minutes ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... had a big fall like this was on 20 May... then it stopped and went up. Why? Because - whether or not he was sent by Aunt Janet - Fed Bank of New York President and FOMC voting member William Dudley told us that day that "the pace of eventual rate increases ...

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 ...

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 ...