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Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... goes a long way to explaining why it has been so easy for the US government to borrow money and for the value of US Treasuries on issue to triple in the last five years. The Spokesman Review has reported that the record demand for US Treasury bonds has ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... has a direct line to the US bond auction system. It is now the only central bank in the world that can purchase US Treasuries without going through America's primary dealers. This move is designed to encourage China to continue stocking up US paper while ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... policies. The Fed has kept interest rates at 0-0.25% since December 2008, bought around US$2,300,000,000,000 worth of US Treasuries and pledged to keep the fed funds rate at "exceptionally low" levels "at least through late 2014". But it ain't good enough. ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... stopped counting its gains at five weeks - for it went down on the sixth - and investors ran for cover back into US Treasuries, taking the 10-year yield back below 2.0% at the end of last week. Yes Virginia, Europe is talking too loudly again. Greece ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on banks have led to a commonwealth and state-debt buying spree. "With US treasuries, UK gilts and German bunds offering record low yields due to flight-to-safety buying, the higher-yielding Australian ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Italian bond market confusion is pushing money towards US treasuries, resulting in Italian bond yields soaring and US bond yields contracting. Responding to the money shifts, Reuters has reported US government bond prices gaining ground as investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Cardillo, chief market economist of Rockwell Global Capital. Shell-shocked investors scurried for the safety of US Treasuries, sending the yield on the 10-year note to its lowest level in history. Bond prices closed the day with solid gains even after ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... USA no longer AAA for the first time in 70 years. But at the same time, we also saw investors pouring funds into US Treasuries - yep those credit instruments that S&P has just marked as less creditworthy. Yes, there were worse-than-expected economic ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... eroding the purchasing power of their investments. Bill Gross, managing director of bond fund PIMCO, sold out of US Treasuries in March. In his August investment outlook, he wrote that investors should logically ask how the US would meet its obligations. ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... But apart from the current rationales that Uncle Sam will make good on his debt, there is no safer safe-haven than US Treasuries and/or China not even contemplating of selling down its massive holdings, America's bond market could be reacting to a more ...