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Former NZ Prime Minister joins bank board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... the head of global foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch and a member of the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Earlier this year, he received a Companion of the Order of Australia for advancing the Australia-New Zealand ...

As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... from the University of Michigan survey of consumers, "as well as a survey of consumers carried out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, do hint that expectations may have slipped a bit over the past two or three years. If so, stabilising inflation ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... (the earliest data available) when the unemployment rate was at 4.4%. The CPI report flies in the face of Federal Reserve Bank of New York president William Dudley who lately commented that: "The story is not a complex one. One, the labour market continues ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... September. But scrooge was nowhere to be seen - exclaiming bah! humbug! - when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) turned up on the 21st of September bearing gifts. The Nikkei-225 index jumped nearly 2% with bank shares rocketing ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... expected to allow production to jump by over 900,000 barrels per day by the end of the year 2016. Meanwhile the US Federal Reserve and other agencies are citing increasing risks to banks that have loaned money to oil and gas producers as oil prices have ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... on again. Yes Virginia, not unless you've spent all of last week touring Mars would you not notice that the US Federal Reserve had been busily preparing planet earth for another lift... as soon as next month and by more before 2016 becomes 2017. How ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's words, "I consider it appropriate for the Committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy". The ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... inflation lower, all else equal, making it more difficult for the Fed to return inflation to target". So did New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley: "With respect to the risks to the inflation outlook, the most concerning is the possibility ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. The US Federal Reserve decided to do nothing and leave interest rates where they were since 16 December 2008, at 0-0.25%. It's you, not me. Not America ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single bit at ...