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US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... 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 the latest jobs report showed ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... just two days earlier. What's fueled the change of heart? Hawkish comments from Fed Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart on Tuesday, and a surprisingly strong report on U.S. service-sector growth Wednesday morning". Yup, that's it financial markets ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... 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 policy, given ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... support for the markets and the economy remains. If it does, in the words of Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart, it "should be a signal that the FOMC is confident the economy is on track to achieve its objectives and that the economy ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... 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 have a mandate to concern ourselves ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... 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 of Congress and that we only have ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... 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 table". San Francisco Fed ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... 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 that of Boston Fed's Eric ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... markets which blame the Fed's reckless minting have found long time ago. Don't blame us was Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart's response to this. Echoing his boss Big Ben's comments, Lockhart remarked that blaming the Fed for rising food and oil ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... hits to their wealth from declines in house and stock prices in recent years." This is echoed by another chief Dennis Lockhart of the Atlanta Fed, who said that, "My forecast for a slow recovery implies a protracted period of high unemployment." And ...
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