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Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... The Spokesman Review has reported that the record demand for US Treasury bonds has seen foreign ownership of US government debt increase to more than US$5 trillion, with China, Japan and Brazil significantly upping their holdings. The US is now so reliant ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... the 1% corporate tax rate reduction which the government wasn't able to get through the Parliament anyway. Net government debt is consequentially expected to remain low, peaking in nominal terms at just $145 billion or 8.9% of GDP in 2013-14 before falling ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... purchases by 10 trillion to 40 trillion and adjusting the terms of purchase to allow it to buy more longer-dated government debt. This, my friends, is also a replay of its move only two months ago when it added 10 trillion to its asset purchases programme ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... executive of QIC Limited, at a recent superannuation industry seminar. MacTaggart said the popularity of Australian government debt is another reason why there is upward pressure on the AUD, explaining that it's not just the resources sector pushing ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... growth, unemployment at half the levels of Europe, a massive investment pipeline, contained inflation and very low government debt," said Swan. The Treasurer also pointed to Australia's relatively low national debt, which he said was projected to peak ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... manager Schroders and Tyndall, but it is not all bad news. High inflows of capital and relatively low levels of government debt has led to an artificially high Australian dollar, while structural changes such as changing consumer sentiment and the rise ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... dollar has continued its slide downwards, following a growing sense of forboding around the issue of eurozone government debt. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at 98.95 US cents, down from 100.16 cents on Wednesday. Westpac New Zealand ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
The Australian dollar has dropped slightly after some negative commentary about the eurozone government debt crisis. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at 100.27 US cents, down from 100.83 at 1700 on Tuesday. HiFX senior trader Stuart Ive ...

Sovereigns need not apply

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... euros more than its October estimate. But as for sovereigns, "We have a treaty which bans monetary financing (of government debt)... the treaty embodies the best tradition of the Bundesbank... the ECB's primary remit is price stability," Draghi declared ...

Euro debt crisis has silver lining for advisers: PIMCO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... policymakers including how the European Central Bank (ECB) should outline the solvent and insolvent countries with government debt buying support for solvent nations and restructurings for insolvent countries. Fisher also spoke about the need for recapitalisation ...