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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 ...

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 ...