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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 ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... coming 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 ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... percent 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 ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... rise this month but the Fed's statement has the potential to provide fuel for this current market turnaround... or not. Janet knows this.

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... would be 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 ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... Americans. And it reflects the Committee's confidence that the economy will continue to strengthen." This is how US Fed Chair Janet explained the FOMC's historic decision - and it was unanimous. Not only this, Wonder Janet emphasised that, "...with the ...