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Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
While the Fed and the markets appear to be focused on the one-half of their twin mandate, jobs - the latest slowing of which caused the latest betting that a lift-off is off the table this year - it's doing better than the other half, that is on inflation.

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Financial markets are reversing their third quarter reversal because speculations are now mounting not over when the Fed would start lift-off, but over whether it should start stimulating once more.

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
"I don't see raising the target range for the fed-funds rate above its current low level in 2015 or 2016 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering."

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Both the RBA and the BOJ have sanguine and positive views on their domestic economies.

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
China has added another feather in its hat this August with the yuan nudging the yen out to become the world's fourth most used payments currency.

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Data released last week - the ones that directly related to the Fed's twin mandate of stable inflation and full employment -- vindicated Janet's prudence.

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
If one bothers to look at the latest sprinkling of eco and survey data out of this land girt by sea this week, the picture they paint is to the contrary.

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
Is the current economic and investment landscape as bad as it was back in 2011?

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Looks like China's "competitive devaluation" has blown up in its face 'ey? This or the Politburo (the non-capitalists that they are) have not yet heard about British economist David Ricardo's theory on comparative advantage.

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
This week brings us data that directly answers the Fed's success or otherwise to its dual mandate - full employment and stable prices.