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Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... Reserve's optimistic outlook for America's economic growth, unemployment and inflation and that, as per the 13 June FOMC statement, the risks to this outlook "appear roughly balanced." However, the minutes of the 12-13 June FOMC meeting indicates ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... closed lower after the Fed announced the widely-anticipated 25 basis point hike in the fed funds rate to 1.75%-2% at its FOMC meeting and according to Fed chief Powell, "is another sign that the US economy is in great shape. Growth is strong. Labour ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... unanimous verdict financial markets and the intelligentsia gave after reading the minutes of the US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting. Can't blame them, it was there all for everybody to see or interpret what they saw. "Most participants ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
The US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting was both expected and a non-event - it kept the fed funds rate target at 1.5%-1.75% and more or less cut and pasted the FOMC Statement at its 20-21 March meeting. Well, maybe less, for May's statement was ...

Moving on up to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... both of the market and that of the Fed's. The Fed put this in the minutes of its March 20-21 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, noting that "all participants expected inflation on a 12-month basis to move up in coming months." But then explained ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank's in each of 12 Federal Districts and is published approximately two weeks before the Fed's FOMC meeting. Speculators speculating the Fed will keep the fed funds rate unchanged at its 1-2 May meeting would take comfort ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... lifting overall inflation in the economy. This gives credence to the Fed's thoughts revealed in the minutes of the 20-21 March FOMC meeting: "A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... threat on Syria (now retreat) the other day, financial markets would have been dissecting the minutes of the Fed's 20-21 March FOMC meeting. There really was nothing significant except for a sentence alluding to a more aggressive path towards normalisation. ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... was widely expected of it - it raised the fed funds rate target by 25 basis points to 1.5%-1.75% following its 20-21 March FOMC meeting. One sentence in the FOMC statement provides the underlying rationale for its move: "The economic outlook has strengthened ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... 1.5%-1.75% - CME FedWatch Tool has the probability of a rate hike at 94.4% - when the US central bank concludes its two-day FOMC meeting on 21 March. But perhaps, the right statement is not that markets are widely expecting the US Federal Reserve to ...