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Economic recap: Week to August 27

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... resort in Wyoming had, after all, been the staging ground for some momentous monetary policy shifts by the US Federal Reserve. Only last - when the war against the pandemic began - the Fed announced a change in its monetary policy strategy at the same ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... closed on the up and up as inflation expectations in Uncle Sam's county eased, calming concerns that the US Federal Reserve would reduce its policy accommodation in the very near future. The day was June 4 - the day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard's recent virtual presentation provided a timely venue for the Fed to push back on inflation fears that drove equity markets down a day before. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... highest since March this year) and the US dollar index rose by 0.7% to 90.8. The fear du' jour is that the US Federal Reserve might start withdrawing policy accommodation sooner than its peddling, sparked by resurgent concerns over inflation. The ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... that considerable slack remains in the economy and, therefore, little upward pressure on inflation. Ergo, the US Federal Reserve will continue to keep monetary policy settings highly accommodative as would fiscal policy. However, there are reports that ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... comes Robert Steven Kaplan -- president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. While the US Federal Reserve was waxing optimistic on the outlook for the general economy at the conclusion of its 27-28 monetary policy deliberations ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
"It's not time to make a change Just relax, take it easy..." - Cat Stevens This is the US Federal Reserve's message to the markets at the conclusion of its April FOMC meeting in its efforts to calm concerns over rising inflation expectations ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The music has stopped, should we cease dancing? Two consecutive days of losses on Wall Street is a very long time in financial markets so much so that "pundits struggle to explain stocks stumble", according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR). ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... even with a brisk pace of improvement in the labor market, achieving this goal would take some time," said the US Federal Reserve in it's most recent minutes. While the US unemployment rate has fallen from the record high 14.8% recorded in April ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... fundamentals are good. The US economy is advancing and rising from the recession borne of the COVID-19 pandemic. The US Federal Reserve and now the Biden administration's, actions and pledges to underwrite continued strengthening in consumer and ...