Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 33 results for "Fedspeak"

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... the point is after weeks of laying the groundwork for an eventual interest rate increase this month (maybe next) with Fedspeak, the 38K addition in jobs last month - the lowest since September 2010 and lower than the bottom range of market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
Australia employment 'Twas a miss. Australian employers added 10,800 workers to their payrolls in April, missing expectations for a 12,500 gain and less than the 25,700 heads added in the previous month. While hiring continues to grow - employment growth ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... lift could re-ignite speculations of earlier/more Fed hikes, sending the US dollar higher, limiting US growth, prompting Fedspeak of "cautious and gradual" action... Round and round we go, where it ends nobody knows.

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
"The same old story It's been told much too much before The same old story But it's worth telling just once more..." - Billie Holiday Perhaps she didn't want to add rattle to an already jittery market. Perhaps she didn't want to deviate from the Fed ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Where have all the buyers gone? Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... miss "December," I didn't say they would lift in December. Read those lines again - it's littered with caveats. Classic Fedspeak if you ask me. But combine this with the latest speaks from Fed officials and voila! The certainty of a lift-off next month ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's a but, it's Fedspeak), this is an "expectation not a commitment". "Both the timing of the first rate increase and any subsequent adjustments ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... December or March, what matters is the entire path of rates..." But that was last week (after the FOMC meeting), the latest Fedspeak is that a lift-off wouldn't come in September or December but in September AND December. According to Reuters, "Federal ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... biases. She's been working at the Fed so long that it's not surprising that she's learned well... she's learnt the art of Fedspeak. Yes. "...since the July 2014 Monetary Policy Report, there has been important progress toward the FOMC's objective of ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... collective behinds and... ultimately, Uncle Sam's. You don't have to decipher codes, no guessing what the Fed was implying, no Fedspeak, the minutes from the Fed's 16-17 September FOMC meeting were explicit. "Some participants expressed concern that ...