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Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... struggling with low inflation which it basically admitted to in its policy statement following the conclusion of its 26 July FOMC meeting: "On a 12-month basis, overall inflation and the measure excluding food and energy prices have declined and are ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... that it takes US economic growth closer to the Fed's median projection of 2.1% growth (year-on-year) for 2017. If the May FOMC statement is any guide, "The Committee expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant gradual increases ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... Federal Reserve has taken back the economic agenda from Trump. While financial markets already know the gist of the 2-3 May FOMC meeting from the monetary policy statement announced at its conclusion, the minutes of that meeting provide nothing but good ...

Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... could begin relatively soon" and not later this year, as financial markets speculated when the minutes of the 14-15 March FOMC meeting was released. The Beige Book report showed that economic activity continued to expand across all the 12 Federal Reserve ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... revelations on the Fed's intent on shrinking its balance sheet. Yes, that one. The one contained in the minutes of the 14-15 March FOMC meeting: "Provided that the economy continued to perform about as expected, most participants anticipated that gradual ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... bell (the S&P 500 index closed 0.3% down after surging as high as 0.8% in early trade). This was the time the 14-15 March FOMC meeting minutes were released and... Wall Street saw that it wasn't good. This is because while the Fed's reference to the ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... participants" think that the fed funds rate should be increased "fairly soon" in the minutes of its 31 January-1 February FOMC meeting, the Fed also admitted that the current administration's policies have created "considerable uncertainty" over forecasting ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... year" (Lockhart) and "it's possible" that this could be next month (Dudley) - and while you're at it forget the July FOMC minutes as well. They're old news! What's of greater remit is Janet's current thoughts on the current state of play - the indications ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... planet earth for another lift... as soon as next month and by more before 2016 becomes 2017. How could we not, when the Feds - FOMC voter and non-voter alike - are out in force going yakkity yak about the upcoming 14-15 FOMC meeting being a live one. ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... perceived importance of the beginning of the policy normalization process." This one sentence in the minutes of the October FOMC alone captures the message that Fed chiefs have lately been spreading on their speaking tours - it's not the timing of the ...