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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 good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
At long last - after 12 long months of toing and froing speculations - it came to pass. The stars aligned enabling Janet to move nearer from turning almost a decade of abnormal monetary policy into normal. Two days less of a full year, the Fed followed ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... that's grateful to Trump, the major central banks are too. In her first public outing since Trump, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave the clearest indication yet that it's all systems go for a rate hike in December. Finally, she can do what she ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... worried about rising inflation, and rising budget deficit and rising debt. Say whaaa? It had been only a month ago when Janet was talking about "hysteris" and temporarily running a "high pressure economy", wasn't it? I haven't seen any US inflation forecast ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... 2016 - some are still betting for at least one more at the other side of the New Year. This may very well be but to use Janet Yellen's words, it depends on the incoming data. In his first speech as RBA governor, Philip Lowe nominated three factors - ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... 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 one thing that caught my eye - one that took me back to my student days ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... year at the start of 2016... which became just two a few months later... and now one (maybe). Nobody, it seems, listens to Janet's oft-repeated statement whenever the dot plot appears: "As I have noted on previous occasions, participants' projections ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... 500 index closed 1.1% higher and the yield on 10-year US bonds down 4 bps to 1.65% on the day. Let's hear it from Santa Janet: "So why didn't we raise the federal funds rate at today's meeting? Our decision does not reflect a lack of confidence in the ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... increased prospect of a September rate hike (odds lifted to 30% after Rosengren spoke from 24%, according to Reuters). Madam Janet would not want that. No siree, not after each and every FOMC statement in recent times stressed that the Fed would adjust ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... rate hike off. Financial markets raised their bets for a September fed funds rate lift soon after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's two-day outing at Jackson Hole (25-26 August). Her words, "Indeed, in light of the continued solid performance of ...