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Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... have been running below the Fed's target for at least a year now. Now cast your minds back to December 2013, the time Bernanke's Fed started tapering QE. Back then the yield differential between the nominal 10-year Treasuries and Treasury Inflation Protected ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... improved from a reading of minus 1 in March this year, August's 2.1 reading remains below the level when our old friend Ben (Bernanke) announced taper back in December 2013 - he would have seen the strong monthly prints of the previous months back then ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... annual central bankers' economic symposium where according to 'The Economist' magazine, "...two previous Fed chairmen, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, used... to signal major shifts in policy." Fed Chair Janet Yellen would be 'persona non attending' ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... rates." The Fed would lift-off when it thinks it's safe and not because of anybody's warning, caution and/or pleading. Bernanke tapered... despite numerous warnings from the same dear lady. Here's one I found on Newsmax 's website: "Even if managed well," ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... short and long - at record lows. Would another reduction (or two or three) take the dollar-A down? Our former friend Ben (Bernanke) thinks so, telling his audience at the World Business Forum in Sydney that, "If Australia finds it has a strong Australian ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... interview at the annual giant hedge fund Skybridge Alternatives Conference - SALT - held in Las Vegas. Ex-Fed chief Ben Bernanke was there, so is his sparring blog partner, John Paulson. Though they agreed to attend on the condition that what they say ...

PIMCO appoints Bernanke to advice role

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
PIMCO has appointed former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as senior adviser. Bernanke will contribute his economic expertise and insights to the firm's investment process and periodically engage PIMCO's clients, the bond ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... anxiety, increasing jitters but panic it is not (yet?). Still, it makes for a good sound byte. Take that "taper tantrum" Bernanke. Would history repeat? Would financial markets ultimately get over the "patient panic" like they did the "tape tantrum" ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... panacea". Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress on 4 October 2011, then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that, "Monetary policy can be a powerful tool, but it is not a panacea for the problems currently faced by the US economy... ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... September 2013's taper tantrum when the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker were all convinced that Big Ben Bernanke (remember him?) will announce taper after the 18th September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 dropped by 4.6% from what was then its ...