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Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... below the Fed's 2% target - after peaking at 2.3% in January this year. These once again raise doubts over Fed Chair Janet Yellen's claim the weakness in inflation is transitory. More so given the strength in the US labour market, underscored by another ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
Janet's in the house. US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's much-awaited testimony did not differ greatly from what was already divulged in the FOMC statement released on 14 June - when the Fed raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1%-1.25%. In her ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... inflation low in the US and the Eurozone, among others. We'll soon find out what the Fed makes of all these when Chair Janet Yellen testifies before Senate Banking Committee this Wednesday and before the House Financial Services Committee the following ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen revealed her thoughts on inflation, inflation expectations and asset valuations when she spoke before the British Academy 'President's Lecture' in London last night. Yellen reiterated the message from the 14 June ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... week prior and down 3.5% from this year's high of 103.21. Reduced number of Fed rate hikes? Good thing Fed chair Janet Yellen was ahead of the game. In her press conference following the FOMC's decision to raise the fed funds rate by 25 bps to 0.75%-1.0% ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... funds rate by another 25 basis points when the FOMC concludes its two-day meeting on the 15th of March. Fed Chair Janet Yellen hinted as much when she testified before the Senate Banking Committee (14 Feb) and the House Financial Services Committee (15 ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... expect the Fed to give interest rates another gentle lift. Rate hike speculations gathered momentum after Fed Chair Janet Yellen testified before the Senate Banking Committee (14 Feb) and the House Financial Services Committee (15 Feb). In her testimony ...

Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
The latest activity and inflation figures out of the US fit in nicely with Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Talking about "The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them", Yellen all but confirmed ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... grateful to Trump, the major central banks are too. In her first public outing since Trump, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave the clearest indication yet that it's all systems go for a rate hike in December. Finally, she can do what she intended ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... off. Financial markets raised their bets for a September fed funds rate lift soon after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's two-day outing at Jackson Hole (25-26 August). Her words, "Indeed, in light of the continued solid performance of the labor ...