Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 744 results for "Bond market"

J.P. Morgan cuts management fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... for income-hungry investors. "We want to lower the barrier for investors to move out of cash and get invested in the bond market," he said. Hallifax observes that Australians are reassessing the role bonds play in their portfolios, given the market conditions. ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Inflation is dead! Bond markets celebrate! News headlines have picked up on the fall and fall in the yield offered by 10-year US Treasuries. The yield closed at 2.24% overnight, down from 2.26% the day before - the lowest since September 2017. But the ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma..." Sir Winston Leonard Churchill may be describing Russia's intentions and interests when he made this now famous quote back in 1939 (before he became UK Prime Minister 1940-1945) but Churchill's ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... the decline in most benchmark equity indices across the planet heading into T-day) and switched to the safety of the bond market. So far, it's still good. Despite recent selling, equity markets are still up this year to date. The S&P 500 remains ...

Coalition to boost retail access to corporate bonds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... of the 2019 Federal Budget, the Morrison Government has committed to consulting on reforms to develop the corporate bond market. Following the release of the Budget, Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert said: "A strong retail corporate bond market will ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... Australia enjoyed a Budget surplus (to the point that speculations back then was that Australia doesn't need a bond market no longer, it doesn't need to borrow money from the rest of the world) - when the surplus, equivalent to 1.7% of GDP in ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... scratching your heads by now, start scratching, for the preceding two charts suggest complacency (greed?) among equity and bond market investors alike. A contrarian indicator if you will - bearing in mind Warren Buffet's advice to be "fearful when ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... scratching your heads by now, start scratching, for the preceding two charts suggest complacency (greed?) among equity and bond market investors alike. A contrarian indicator if you will - bearing in mind Warren Buffet's advice to be "fearful when ...

Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... market that has historically been complicated and cumbersome for foreign investors to access," Saxo said. The Chinese bond market has an estimated worth of $12 trillion, with Chinese bonds being increasingly added to global indices. "This means that ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
We might just be heading to witness once again the truth about the old adage on Wall Street that "a bull market doesn't die of old age, the Fed murders it." As expected, the US Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.5% ...