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Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's in the Hole - the annual Jackson Hole symposium, that is. Out of or deeper into the (Jackson) hole? Powell's all too aware that he has to mind his Ps and Qs because his every word would be sliced ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... too huge to be blown out". All eyes and ears are on US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's messaging at the Jackson Hole symposium on August 23. Will he? won't he? bend to Trump's recent demand to cut the fed funds rate "by at least 100 ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... thinks (and is prepared to do) to short circuit these shorting of emerging market currencies and equities at his Jackson Hole outing later this week. Just by pondering a temporary halt in "normalisation" proceedings, Jerome could hit two birds with one ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... 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 market and our outlook for economic ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... market expectations. These would add to "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate" Yellen talked about at Jackson Hole. However, the latest update on inflation does not. The PCE price index slowed to 0.8% in the year to July from 0.9% in June. ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... live! It'll be one of those Septembers to remember. This, Virginia, is if you believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many words ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Sit down, buckle up and hang on Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single bit at what used to be 'the decider' annual symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some argue for a lift this year (we won't quibble about whether it's September or December) citing the strengthening ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... out. Perhaps, not for long. We may even receive a telegraph message from the Fed before the September FOMC meeting. Jackson Hole is coming this August, on the 27th up to the 29th. Yes, that annual central bankers' economic symposium where according to ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... countries, The Los Angeles Times reported." "No country is an island," she said Friday at the Fed's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "Looking at the wider effect is in your self-interest," she said. "It is in all of our interests." We all ...