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Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... "...two previous Fed chairmen, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, used... to signal major shifts in policy." Fed Chair Janet Yellen would be 'persona non attending' but this year's topic, "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" will provide a clue on ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... 2015 on Fed lift-off speculations - they will, they won't this year. The latest rumour on the mill is that Fed Chair Janet Yellen would start before 2015 is over: "I expect that it will be appropriate at some point later this year to take the first step ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... the Fed's finger on lift-off button closer. Note that the Fed's also watching the unfolding Greek saga. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told us so only last week. In her press statement after the conclusion of the 2-day FOMC meeting (16-17 June), Janet told us ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Representatives financial services committee." Thank you Yahoo News. And then there's this statement from Fed Chair Janet Yellen after the conclusion of their 2-day FOMC gabest: "...Greece and its creditors are faced with very difficult and consequential ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... reveals about the economy." This was the last iteration of "data dependent" you, I and Irene heard from Fed Chair Janet Yellen when she spoke before the Providence Chamber of Commerce in Rhode Island on the 22nd of May about well... the "actual course ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... played in my head as soon as I read about what the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - the one that Fed Chair Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP Growth"! "The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... as investors awaited details of a Greek reform package crucial to an extension of its bailout and with Fed chair Janet Yellen's upcoming congressional testimony also in focus. Tokyo added 0.74 per cent, or 136.56 points, to end at 18,603.48 on Tuesday ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... "considerable time" has become after they conclude their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. Could it be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's "...you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing" back in March was not ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... cohesion at threat, pressure on the central bank to respond invariably increases." The problem, according to Fed Chair Janet Yellen is: "The assessment of labor market slack is rarely simple and has been especially challenging recently. Estimates of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... - Wall Street stocks have finished mostly lower following a cautious appraisal of the US jobs market by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and a sharpening of tensions over Ukraine. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38.27 points on Friday (0.22 per cent) to ...