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Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
The latest activity and inflation figures out of the US fit in nicely with Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Talking about "The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them", Yellen all but confirmed ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... and Implications for Future Business Cycle Dynamics" at 60th annual economic conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen spoke about many things at that conference but ...

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 ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... 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 ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" The song instantly 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 first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... head honcho's (honcha?) statement at "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco last month when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives" ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives". (http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20150327a.htm) ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... for mirror, mirror on the wall, the greenback is the fairest of 'em all. Latest available data from the US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show the "Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index: Major Currencies" at 91.57 as at 6 February. This is the best level ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... doesn't, then liquidity support for the markets and the economy remains. If it does, in the words of Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart, it "should be a signal that the FOMC is confident the economy is on track to achieve its objectives ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... macro economy. What happened then? What happened is escalating oil prices cured escalating oil prices. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's paper on the "Oil Shock of 1978-79" concludes that: "Eventually, slowing economic activity in industrial countries ...