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Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... would the Fed reconcile these inconsistent stats? The short answer is, it may have to wait for more data for leading indicators of the labour market are equally ambivalent - there's also the good and the bad. For instance, the Conference Board's latest ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments." "When the Committee decides to begin ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... "This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments."... and that, "based on its assessment ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... now be "looking at a broad range of data on the labor market, including unemployment, job creation and many other indicators of labor market performance". So much for forward guidance, eh. But wait, I may have spoken too soon. Last night, Federal Reserve ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... "would be looking at a broad range of data on the labor market, including unemployment, job creation and many other indicators of labor market performance." She may be keeping policy steady as she goes, but Fed Chairman Yellen had to swerve on forward ...

SMSFs eye offshore assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... investors," Certitude Global Investments chief executive Craig Mowll said. "These investors can often be leading indicators of the rest of the market in identifying and taking advantage of the vast world of investment opportunity that exists outside ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... been disappointing - most notably, the June drop in the ISM manufacturing index - one of the most reliable leading indicators of the US economy - into contraction territory and the disappointing jobs growth of only 80K in the same month and lowered company ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... ors, and no buts to find, it's getting ugly out there. Oh yes Virginia, the combed over look ugly as events and indicators of the past week suggest that we are coming into, if not already in, a perfect storm. These indicators reveal that the festering ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... signs are all around us - macro-economic fundamentals are deteriorating, systemic risk is growing and technical indicators of risk assets are breaking down. I'd like to able to conjure some positive tidings out of these negatives - there usually is ...

Investors look for business activity signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... to cut through the noise in the market is to distinguish between short term stock price drivers and fundamental indicators of business activity, such as retail sales, production output, employment demand and credit growth. When you do this you can see ...