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"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... September 2013's taper tantrum when the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker were all convinced that Big Ben Bernanke (remember him?) will announce taper after the 18th September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 dropped by 4.6% from what was then its ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... markets this question, there surely would be a chorus of "yes it was!" They're still basking in the afterglow of Big Ben Bernanke's comforting words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at fresh record highs overnight. So deym excellent ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... doesn't get any clearer than this! It's crystal! No more communications breakdown. No more failure to communicate. Big Ben Bernanke has delivered! While it's mostly a reiteration of the repeated message I've been telling you he's been telling us since ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
It's now or never. Last chance to place your bets - check, raise or fold - before Big Ben Bernanke shows his hands. Gauging from Wall Street's back-to-back gains over the first two trading days of this week, it appears that the money is on Big Ben revealing ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Old habits die hard it seems. Didn't US Federal Reserve Big Ben Bernanke already change the definition of Fedspeak to mean clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... persists, would also put downward pressure on inflation. Having said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big Ben Bernanke. He'll sort these out when he speaks before the Bard College at Simon's Rock Commencement, Great Barrington, Massachusetts ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like it on ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... answered. And if I may add, the National Accounts can still be interpreted both ways - good and bad. Is this what Big Ben Bernanke referring to when he made that now famous "unusually uncertain" economic outlook? Initial estimates by the US Commerce ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the markets already didn't know, Big Ben Bernanke may have provided this spark. "My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." And there was ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
They love him, they love him not. This is what the financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow ...
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