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Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... 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 (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... has fallen by 49% from the Brexit-induced spike that sent it to a four-month high of 25.76. Although contrary to Fed chair Janet Yellen's expectations for an upward revision in the May estimate, it was lowered to a mere 11,000 gain from the initially ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... top honchos of top global institutions wouldn't be issuing warnings just for eyeballs. There's US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: "One development that could shift investor sentiment is the upcoming referendum in the United Kingdom. A UK vote to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... job ads series lead domestic employment growth by about 3-6 months. US Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) US Fed chair Janet Yellen and a few of her fellow feds downplayed last week's vastly disappointing employment report - a mere 38K jobs added in ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... becoming an exercise in futility. All these are in the past. The Fed changed the dynamics in March as elucidated by Chair Janet in her speech at the Economic Club of New York on the 29th of March: "...the median of FOMC participants' projections for ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... 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 euro closed 2.0% ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... coming months. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. But chances are she's calling it as she sees it. Thus, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's eagerly anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... percent longer-run goal". We'll get an updated insight into the Fed's thinking about all these when no less than Fed Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee (Wednesday) and the Senate Banking Committee (Thursday) this ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... would be over the course of the following year and thereafter. Still, I cannot help but be amazed at how deftly Fed Chair Janet Yellen pulled lift-off off - more so, if viewed in contrast with the ECB President Mario Draghi's disastrous handling of his ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... Americans. And it reflects the Committee's confidence that the economy will continue to strengthen." This is how US Fed Chair Janet explained the FOMC's historic decision - and it was unanimous. Not only this, Wonder Janet emphasised that, "...with the ...