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Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... if you believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many words (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps, even after she's said her piece... depending on what her ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... has fallen by 49% from the Brexit-induced spike that sent it to a four-month high of 25.76. Although contrary to Fed chair Janet Yellen's expectations for an upward revision in the May estimate, it was lowered to a mere 11,000 gain from the initially ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... top honchos of top global institutions wouldn't be issuing warnings just for eyeballs. There's US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: "One development that could shift investor sentiment is the upcoming referendum in the United Kingdom. A UK vote to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... job ads series lead domestic employment growth by about 3-6 months. US Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) US Fed chair Janet Yellen and a few of her fellow feds downplayed last week's vastly disappointing employment report - a mere 38K jobs added in ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... June, perhaps in July... and to expect not one but two or three, maybe. Dismiss their words if you will but not Fed head Janet Yellen's. At her latest outing last Friday at the Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Janet told her audience ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... becoming an exercise in futility. All these are in the past. The Fed changed the dynamics in March as elucidated by Chair Janet in her speech at the Economic Club of New York on the 29th of March: "...the median of FOMC participants' projections for ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's words, "I consider it appropriate for the Committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy". The euro closed 2.0% ...

Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... is not expected to alter monetary policy at all at this month's meeting, there's a niggling sense of anticipation of what Janet's forward guidance would contain and what the new 'dot plots' would show (last December, they indicated four rate hikes this ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... on negative interest rates. The Fed's reportedly exploring the legalities of negative interest rates just in case, or in Janet's words, "in the spirit of prudent planning". The aim of the game, of course, is to push investors into equities and keep bond ...