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Falling bond yields, low growth, subdued returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... response to continuing fears of contagion in Europe. The rush to safe-haven bond destinations has pushed demand for US treasury bonds so high that they were trading at price to earning ratios of more than 60, twice their normal level, reported Benjamin ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... is not the form or shape of the stimulus but whether or not Uncle Ben actually delivers. I think it will. While ex-US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson thinks that the European sovereign debt crisis would only have a minimal effect on US economic growth ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... month. This is lower than the lowest yield (2.08%) reached at the height of the GFC in 2008. So what does the 10-year US Treasury yield of sub-2% tell us? It tells us that the bond market expects economic depression and deflation to ensue. Investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... dived in the wake of European and Asian losses on rising investor worries about Spain's weak banks. The yield on the US Treasury's 10-year bond hit an all-time record low and the US dollar reached a nearly two-year high against the euro as investors ...

Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
Turbulence in European debt markets is pushing global investors back towards US Treasury bonds, with demand so high that supply can't keep up. The effect is so extreme that Bloomberg has reported yields are being compressed to what are now 10-year lows. ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... intergovernmental agreement as a matter of priority." Treasurer Wayne Swan is believed to have previously raised the issue with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Australian Treasury officials have been communicating with their US counterparts ...

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 ...