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US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... polar vortex. Spring has finally sprung! But wait! If this is the case, why is the US bond market also happy? Yields on 10-year US Treasuries are lower now (2.51%) - bond prices are higher - than they were when the deep freeze instilled doubts over US ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
You can almost taste it. It's nearly here. That time of year when that age-old Wall Street adage tells us to go away. May is coming! And right on cue, we get spooks from renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight - before closing down 0.6% and up 10bps, respectively - spooked ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... cold... but war it would be! Me said I'm not falling for this war business again because I did just about this time last year. On 4 April 2013, I cried wolf... when global equity markets sold off (about the same magnitude the night before). While it ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... However, the ultimate clincher for the Fed - as it was in September - how US Treasuries are faring. Yields on US 10-year Treasuries have fallen from 3.04% at the start of 2014 to 2.74% last night. Worse (for emerging markets), the more they stumble ...

China heading for debt disaster, sure sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
You can set your watch on it! Like clockwork the start of the New Year brings with it a brand new stick to bash China with. China has become the world's tallest poppy. It must be cut down! China was bashed in 2010 with the social unrest stick back in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... firmer as uncertainty reigns over whether the US Federal Reserve will start winding back its economic stimulus program this year. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) finishes its two-day early on Thursday morning, Australian time, and is ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
'Tis being my final type (drivel, to some gentle readers) for the year, we'll take a look back at the 2013 that was to seek the lessons it imparted and at the same time, divine what lies ahead at the other side of the New Year. Still beaming from the ...

Black Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013