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Chief economist update: Is the US about to join the global slowdown club?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
US consumers aren't shopping till they drop. They dropped spending. The US Census Bureau's latest update on retail spending - which constitutes the bulk of household spending that, in turn, accounts for about 70% of the US economy - showed that ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... day. Sure, we've already heard Fed vice-chairman Clarida talking about the Fed being "much closer" to neutral and Atlanta Fed President Bostic speak of the fed funds rate being "not too far" from neutral, but nothing beats hearing the same from the ...

Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... Treasuries (yield curve inversion) that was later on followed by the Great Recession. This is one of the reasons why Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic and some of his colleagues are advising the Fed to "slow the pace of interest rate hikes".

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... 19K employed in October and November) and the unemployment rate inching up to 4.7% from 4.6%. However, I agree with Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart's comments that, "The job of cyclical recovery is largely done". This is because the details of ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... economy over the next two years... Even with some normalization, policy will remain exceptionally accommodative." Atlanta Fed pres Dennis Lockhart in Georgia: "I think liftoff in one of the meetings starting in June through September represents appropriate ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
It's raining jobs...A hallelujah... it's raining jobs! Yes Virginia, I'm sure that you too are excited (and you can't hide it) seeing the latest instalment of the US non-farm payrolls report that showed most measures up. It was all up for the US labour ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... the impression that frankly, my dear, it doesn't give a damn to what happens with the rest of the world. Here's what Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said about it. "You have to remember that we are a legal creature of Congress and that we only ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... rhetoric from two regional Fed pres says it all, the Fed doesn't give a damn (as in, it won't give a dime). Here's what Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said about the emerging market rout then: "You have to remember that we are a legal creature ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... escalate." This, Virginia, after his cohorts at the Fed practically announced the day before that QE is on its way. Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said that and extension of Operation Twist (it ends at the end of this month) is an "option on the ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... the Fed should increased interest rates to 1 per cent soon - perhaps within a few months. This echoed comments from Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart that even with "unacceptable levels of unemployment," the Fed may need to raise interest rates and ...
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