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Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... climbed half a percent on the day the minutes were released (18 May) to close that week 0.8% higher. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries jumped to 1.85% from 1.77% on 17 May. The S&P 500 index dropped by 0.5% after the release of the Fed minutes (though ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... machinery and equipment, transport equipment, telecom equipment and electrical machineries. Central banks dumping US treasuries Foreign governments are dumping US debt like never before, according to reports from CNN Money. They said that in a bid to ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... Already, inflation expectations in the United States -- indicated by the differential between the yield on nominal US treasuries and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) - has turned down further away from the Fed's 2.0% target instead of towards ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... of 16.85 overnight. Wall Street says yes it will. The S&P 500 index rallied 1.6% overnight and yield on 10-year US Treasuries increased only slightly from 2.26% to 2.27% and Bloomberg's US dollar spot index went down by 0.1%, albeit from an eight-month ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... December 2013, the time Bernanke's Fed started tapering QE. Back then the yield differential between the nominal 10-year Treasuries and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) - inflation expectations - was above the Fed's 2% inflation target ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... said. Looking at the impact on bond markets, Leech said that with the exception of the Taper Tantrum, long-term US Treasuries have been "a pretty good diversifier to risk." "They help provide a portfolio balance and actually provided positive returns ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... expectations... and they're not. Inflation expectations - measured by the differential between the nominal yield on US Treasuries and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) - indicate that price growth would remain below the Fed's 2.0% target ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Europe's debt crisis would trigger a global recession sent investors to the relative safety of the U.S. currency and Treasuries in the third quarter, dragging equity markets in 37 of the 45 countries in the MSCI All-Country World Index into bear markets ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... expectations. Wall Street seemed to be. The S&P 500 index closed more than half a percent on the up while yield on 10-year US Treasuries closed 5 bps lower to 2.15%. But let's not jump the gun here. The Empire State Manufacturing Survey, after all, tracks ...

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 ...