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Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... outside chance they may start the tightening cycle in September. In light of that, Reynolds has a short exposure to US Treasuries in the Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond fund and a corresponding long position in Canadian interest rates, anticipating ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... bond yields have climbed to 2.38% last night from 2.17% at the start of the year and there may be more losses from US Treasuries coming once the Fed starts lift-off. Explanation four. Money printing -- this time from the ECB and the BOJ -- would one ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... media stocks valuation were "stretched." And "compared to returns on safe assets like bonds"? The yield on 10-year US Treasuries has risen from this year's low of 1.64% to 2.41% (as at last night). And this still doesn't include the negative repercussions ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Street was at best... confused - the S&P 500 index gained 0.2% (later than sooner lift-off) but yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose to 2.18% from 2.12% and the US dollar index appreciated by 0.6% to 97.4 overnight (sooner than later lift-off). The reason ...

Strong USD reflects (deflects) lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... safe-haven buying due to the return of "contagion" spook in Europe as evidenced by the drop in the yield on 10-year US treasuries to 2.13% overnight from 2.21% at the open. While Greece and 'the institutions' continue their pretend and extend game - ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... they were expected to go. The VIX index dove by 10.8% The US dollar index dropped by 2.3%; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped by 13 bps to 1.92% and the yield on 2-years declined by 12 bps to 0.55%. US equities rallied: The S&P 500 gained 1.3% ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... tantrum" and set out to new heights. Or is this time different? The "taper tantrum" of mid-2013 sent yields on 10-year US Treasuries up, US equities lower and the VIX index rising... and then the tantrum tapered. Financial markets learned to live with ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... to 1.6% from 1.8% in November. Inflation expectation (as measured by the difference between the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the yield on 10-year TIPS) was 1.65% on FOMC meeting day 27 January. What the Fed is seeing before its 18 March meet: Non-farm ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... 1.9% in the previous month. The latest jobs report was so solid, so strong, soA damn good that yields on 10-year US Treasuries jumped 13 basis points to 2.0% (rounded) on the day after dropping to a 19-month low of 1.64% on 30 January on the disappointing ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... QE3 caused little stir in the financial markets - the S&P 500 index lost a teenie-weenie 0.1%; yields on 10-year US Treasuries increased by a small 0.02 percentage point to 2.32%; the VIX index went up by 0.76 point to a still low 15.15 reading. There ...