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So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... growth like this (er, contraction), there's no reason to expect anything else but a spring back in spring. (There's also Aunt Janet ready to pounce if it doesn't - "monetary policy is not on a pre-set course"). More so, because more up-to-date US economic ...

Janet puts it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... a comforting word," or two... and then it was on, risk on! The S&P 500 closed 0.6% on the up. And why the heck not? Aunt Janet told the US Congress' Joint Economic Committee - and the world - that: She's optimistic about the economic outlook. "... we ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... 53.7 in the previous month, with employment sub-component of the index perking up by 3.6 points to a 54.7 reading. Aunt Janet may have to wait another month - or two - to get her answer.

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... ok, maybe not that long but... long enough). More so, because it appears that the US economy is progressing the way Aunt Janet and her bunch of merry men foresee it. Recall Aunt Janet's words at the Economic Club of New York last 16 April: "... my FOMC ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... that this would be so but now it's here... in black and white: In her speech before the Economic Club of New York, Aunt Janet Yellen told the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and the high frequency traders that, "... economic conditions may ...
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