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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... now Virginia. We're about to re-live the nightmare again. The problem this time is that the 'go to' asset class - US Treasuries -- during times like these are the very ones that are being hammered more and their volatility spiking way up into the stratosphere. ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... sooner rather than later. The prospect of reduced money printing by the US central bank sent the yield on 10-year US Treasuries soaring from a five-month low of 1.63% on the 2nd of May to around 2.21% currently. US bond prices - as measured by the JP ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... Equity markets are now turning on their head with investors, according to reports, rotating back into the 'safety' of US Treasuries. Stupid, right? Stupid why? Stupid why is because the death of QE would hit bonds more than it does equities. Yet, we ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... consumer prices fell 0.4 per cent in April and annual inflation was 1.1 per cent. St George economist Janu Chan said US Treasuries and Australian bond futures prices strengthened after the disappointing figures. "Sentiment weakened with the run of US ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... purchases (quantitative easing) for longer." Ms Chan said the continuation of quantitative easing helped support US Treasuries prices. At 0830 AEST on Thursday, the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.750 (implying a yield of 3.250 per ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... shiny metal to the CBs - it was what they termed, a "non-appreciating, non-interest bearing asset. So they went for US Treasuries which, over the same period, fell from 4.53% to below 2.0%. That was until the CB's agreed not sell more than 2,000 tonnes ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... those trillions of yen seeking higher yields. PIMCO boss, Bill Gross, anticipates that some of these will flow onto US Treasuries. He's reportedly raised his holdings of US 10-year bonds to 33% of the Total Return Fund's assets in March because, "This ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... Nevertheless, this latest bout of financial market volatility has brought not a few investors back into the safety of US Treasuries. The yield on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries dipped below 2.0% on the Cyprus conundrum after gradually edging up over ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... and more than offset by the Fed's monthly purchases of MBS worth around US$40 billion monthly and US$45 billion in US Treasuries. So net-net, the US economy is still getting stimulated, is it not? And this is happening at the same time that the national ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... concluded, these are not "pure defaults-but as instances of defaults and restructuring". This is perhaps the reason why US Treasuries remain the go to asset class in times of uncertainty and trouble, even if it's over its own.