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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... $US1.1360 from $US1.1342 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed after US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen dampened speculation of a rate hike before summer, and as eurozone finance ministers backed Greek reforms critical to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... despite fresh records on Wall Street on the back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international lead-ins for the local bourse. ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's 1,926 word testimony. So very, very much, that anybody and everybody could pick and choose what they think Janet's saying ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... per cent, at 5,890 points. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh records after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen pledged a cautious approach to raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday rose 92.35 points (0.51 ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... highest since February this year - before closing at a still high 18.76. But, but... but isn't this a good thing? Mama Janet Yellen wants it because "...low levels of volatility may induce risk-taking behavior that for example entails excessive build-up ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... driving down prices. This triple impact on employment, economic growth and inflation is playing into the hands of Janet Yellen and her Federal Open Market Committee. Gerardo Rodriguez, senior investment strategist in BlackRock's emerging markets team ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... before the Fed starts raising interest rates would remain "considerable" as far as the eye can see... that, or mama Janet Yellen would be invoking a quote from the 1999 movie, 'The Sixth Sense' - A "I see dead people". Perhaps the Fed has found religion ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... 1958.43 points (down 0.5%) before closing a mere 0.2% down. Has mother lost her mojo? Perhaps she has. For even mama Janet Yellen, herself, told us at Jackson Hole that that "the decline in the unemployment rate over this period somewhat overstates the ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... chilling suspense and then at the end of the day... the good guy gets the girl and walks. Financial markets got nervy at Janet Yellen. Will she? Won't she? But despite the little excitement caused by the slight adjustment upwards of the "dots" in the ...