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Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Sit down, buckle up and hang on Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... index has fallen by 49% from the Brexit-induced spike that sent it to a four-month high of 25.76. Although contrary to Fed chair Janet Yellen's expectations for an upward revision in the May estimate, it was lowered to a mere 11,000 gain from the initially ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... The ANZ job ads 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 ...

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 ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... Committee's 2 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 ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... hikes 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 ...

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 ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... would risk disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession." This is what Fed Chair Janet Yellen told the Economic Club of Washington last night - the same words that the Joint Economic Committee would hear ...

A December lift if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... market and transitory factors fading -- that inflation will move up to 2 percent." These were the words that came out of Fed Chair Janet Yellen's lips when she testified before the House Financial Services Committee last night that suggest a December ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... status quo following their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. Perhaps, but Wall Street and the world weren't pleased when Fed Chair Janet Yellen maintained the suspense over the timing of the very first US interest rate hike in nine years -- underscored by ...