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Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... 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 exit ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... 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 May versus ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... 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 that ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... reading. The NFIB notes that: "Owners remain very pessimistic about the economy, a view unfortunately reinforced by Fed Chair Yellen's back peddling on the timing of the next rate hike. She seems to be afraid of something, and this only adds to uncertainty ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... 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% higher ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... risky asset prices, might weigh more heavily on UK domestic demand than had been allowed for in the forecast. This was the Yellen's message in her semi-annual testimony on Capitol Hill on 10 February: "...the economy has made further progress toward ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... months. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. But chances are she's calling it as she sees it. Thus, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's eagerly anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services offered ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... longer-run goal". We'll get an updated insight into the Fed's thinking about all these when no less than Fed Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee (Wednesday) and the Senate Banking Committee (Thursday) this week. ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... decided to lift after their 15-16 FOMC meeting, crude oil prices were trading at around the mid-US$30 a barrel mark and Fed Yellen revealed to us (at the time) about her confidence that a stabilisation in the oil price (as they have seemed to in the ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... over the course of the following year and thereafter. Still, I cannot help but be amazed at how deftly Fed Chair Janet Yellen pulled lift-off off - more so, if viewed in contrast with the ECB President Mario Draghi's disastrous handling of his own "policy ...