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QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... 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 reading. There ...

Better corporate cash management lifts returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... performance and in turn costing investors and super fund members foregone investment returns. A survey of corporate treasuries conducted by the institutional bank BNP Paribas has found that almost one third understand where only about half their company's ...

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
... 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% plus at the ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... 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) this year. ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... another's gain. So again, Vlad is not all bad after all. The US bond market says so. Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries went from 2.49% the day before to all of 2.483% at the close of today's NY trade. The same way the US bond market reacted (or ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... S&P last Thursday, you have to go the third decimal point to see any movement in the yield on 10-year US benchmark Treasuries - up to 2.559% from 2.557% the day prior - almost the same reaction they displayed during the spooks of January 24, February ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
So what's new in world of Wall Street today? In a word... nothing. Not a thing, Virginia. Equities, Treasuries, gold and copper closed basically unchanged overnight. Sure, sure there's still plenty of things to worry about on Wall Street. The latest ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... 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 that indicated ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting starting in January this year. Successive tapering have reduced the Fed's purchase of US Treasuries from US$45 billion at the end of last year to less than half that this month. At the conclusion of its 17-18 June policy ...