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SEC sues Kraken exchange again

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Kraken Crypto Exchange for operating its trading platform as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency. According to the SEC, Kraken has made hundreds of millions ...

US CPI inflation rate stays stubbornly high

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.1% in March, remaining at 5% year on year. NAB economist Taylor Nugent said the US CPI showed welcome, but not overwhelming, progress. "Headline CPI rose less than expected, up 0.1% month on month, and 5.0% year ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... this from Bloomberg, "The comments place Powell among five officials who see two increases this year, joining San Francisco Fed President John Williams, who told reporters on Friday that he forecast two moves on the basis of "good progress" on hiring. ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... start of this week and in different corners of the world at that. From the mouths of Feds: Monday, 23 March : San Francisco Fed president John Williams (in Sydney and Melbourne via video conference), "Things are looking better-in fact, they're looking ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... going. If still not enough, there's still the un-taper and re-reflate, I mused about on this space yesterday. San Francisco Fed pres John Williams' singing the same song I sang, humming to Reuters that, "If we really get a sustained, disinflationary ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... rates." This assessment is thought to carry weight because as the Australian Financial Review (AFR) prints, "The San Francisco Fed is the home base of US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen". Sure, sure. Are we talking about the same Janet Yellen ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... stats are indeed the start of a new weaker growth trend in the US economy and the US Federal Reserve does as San Francisco Fed president John Williams and Philadelphia Fed chief Charles Plosser prescribe. Williams: "It's clear that the labor market has ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Oh-em-gee! That slowly revving engine of the world economy is running out of puff. Woe is us, we're in trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... 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 president John Williams declared that if conditions continue to deteriorate, "further monetary actions to support the ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... next year. Not with 10.2 per cent unemployment and rising and the recovery remains tentative. In a speech in San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said that, "The strength and durability of the expansion is in question. Some of the rebound is due ...
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