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It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... the US consumer confidence survey that showed the proportion of respondents saying that "jobs are plentiful" rising to six-year highs in January and those who thought "jobs hard to get" dropping to six-year lows. Average hourly earnings up by 2.2% in ...

Investors blind to arbitrage opportunity in emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... opportunity for investors. "Credit opportunities in Australia are almost non-existent. Credit spreads above Aussie treasuries are at almost record tights," he said. "Right across the emerging market credit spectrum - whether its investment grade, high ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... The death of 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 ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields on 10-year Treasuries rose to 2.53% at the close of trade Friday from 2.50% the previous day. But... but, but it doesn't make sense. One, because ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... investors in these markets are more sanguine. The S&P 500 index is off only 1.2% from its all-time high and the yields on 10-year US Treasuries have risen by only 25 basis points to 2.59% from 2.34% at the start of September - still down from the 3.0% ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... rate steady at 1.9%. Benign inflation is the main reason why - apart from Putin's induced safe haven buying - yields on 10-year US Treasuries remain low in spite of the Fed's US$10 billion monthly reduction in asset purchases (US$5 billion for Treasuries) ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... European airlines to avoid flying over Russian airspace and would amount to losses of about US$100 million to US$200 million a year. The report doesn't say if the estimated losses include the drop in demand from flyers dissuaded from flying European ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... sharp 2.0% and Friday's minus 0.3% follow up send the S&P 500 index down 2.7% for the week but it remains up for 4.2% for the year. Oh well, they did say that this is only the beginning. The same way "they" said it was when the S&P dropped around the ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... bigger-than-expected 1.1% in June (this follows last week's news of an 8.1% drop in US new home sales in June) and down by 7.3% on the year. Just one month's number or a digit that marks that the US housing market has peaked? Too (or two), there's the ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... financial developments. Go that? "...readings on financial developments." Must be why the US bond market's happy. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries closed at 2.57% last night... down from a high of 2.7% posted on 3 July because of the strong employment ...