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Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Another day, another Fed speaks Fed speak. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reportedly "told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... (October 2014), are we now witnessing its nasty lagged effects?" Seems the same observation has also dawned on Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota - nice to have company in high places. As reported by Dow Jones Business ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... in the U.S. economy," according to the BOJ. Risks that could increase (again) if the RBA is correct that, "The Federal Reserve is expected to start increasing its policy rate over the period ahead..." (whenever that "period ahead" may be). The Bank of ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... earnings and share prices in the United States. The committee has also pushed back its forecasted timing of the US Federal Reserve's credit tightening to October from September. The manager was more positive in its assessment of the Australian equity ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal Reserve will proceed but it is going to be a long and slow process. "The Fed is trying to change the communication focus from the ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Too bad for Wall Street, the closing bell has already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has delayed the interest rate lift off; supporting Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass' view that tightening will be drawn out over many years. Presenting to some 800 advisers at Sydney's Westin Hotel ...

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 ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... so long ago - when the S&P 500 dropped by 7.4% between mid-September to mid-October 2014 - but that time it was Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis president James Bullard who played the knight in shining armour. As MarketWatch reported on 16 October 2014 ...