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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 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... in opening trade as investors snap up cheaper stocks following recent falls. Comments overnight from the Federal Reserve Bank's St Louis president Jamie Bullard suggesting that the US not scale back its asset purchase stimulus program at the end of this ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... hasn't drop far enough (and so the small teenie weenie bounce)? Nah, it wasn't that. It was what A St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said around lunchtime that sent the S&P into positive territory... around lunchtime. "We have to ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... and to the committee". She told us so at her press conference after the June FOMC meeting. Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) told us that, "the low volatility in asset markets could, in part, reflect market participants' relative ...