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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... says his country is cutting its debt levels faster than earlier projected under its bailout plan. WASHINGTON - The US Treasury says it earned $US25 billion ($A23.63 billion) from investments it made in mortgage-backed securities during the height of ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... announcement stoked confidence, Wall Street reversed its earlier downtrend after hearing the announcement and closed higher. US Treasury yields with three- to five-year maturities fell to 3-month lows. Ten-year yields only fell slightly perhaps reflecting ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... inverse of Dave's trailing P/E ratio of 13 gives us an earnings yield of 7.7%. Now compare this with the current 10-year US Treasury bond yield of 2.0% -- give or take - and it becomes really mouth-watering, particularly if the recent trend of stronger-than-expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... The euro, which had earlier gained against the dollar, slid to $US1.3391 from $US1.3397 late in New York on Tuesday. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was confident that Europe would find a way out of its debt crisis, a solution to which ...

Volcker Rule dramatics continue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... gut the US corporate bond market and Congressmen who think it still contains too many loopholes. Meanwhile, former US Treasury Secretary Paul Volcker who proposed the reform, says at 300 pages it's now become too complicated because of all the provisions ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... three days after the US Senate passed a bill allowing sanctions on countries with "misaligned" exchange rates and US Treasury Secretary Geithner's vocal support for the bill and US President Obama's accusation that China is "gaming the system" by keeping ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... - effectively handing capital gains to the central bank. The Fed's capital gains translates into earnings for the US Treasury and at the same time lowers the US government's cost of borrowing and debt repayments. And as for Wall Street, lower long-term ...

Psychological asset classes run investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Gold, silver and US Treasury bonds are all psychological asset classes that will eventually burn investors, according to a chief investment strategist. James Swanson, chief investment strategist, MFS Investment Management told Financial Standard that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... for Greece until they had firmer evidence of Athens's willingness to cut its deficit. In another sign of friction, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was also attending the meeting, disagreed with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble over ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... default. Orderly or disorderly - Greece will have to default. And this is giving everyone the jitters. Not least is US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner who preached to the Europeans to act more forcefully to solve their crisis. Yeah, he can talk. "Why ...