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Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... Republican party watching their every move. At least the markets reacted reasonably to the news with 10 year yields on US Treasury bonds rising just 5 basis points from 1.98% pa to 2.03% and the Dow Jones rallying 2.5%. Ben Ong is away on leave.

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while the S&P/ASX 200 was down 62.3 points or 1.52% to 4042.9. US Treasury debt had been widely regarded as the safest security in the world, rated AAA. The S&P downgrade shook that pillar of ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Australian investors, including super funds, misinterpreting gold as a returns generator rather than as a defensive strategy is costing them major opportunities in the sector. Taurus Funds Management is a specialist in the gold sector and their director ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... cent) to 1,286.94, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slumped 11.77 points (0.43 per cent) to 2,744.61. Prices for US Treasury bonds, which are still under the threat of a ratings downgrade, rallied. The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 2.74 ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... deal with your votes over the next few days," he said at the White House. Australia reportedly has $11.2 billion in US treasury holdings including from super fund investment, banks and the Reserve Bank. Rainmaker research shows the average superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... points to 4,419 points, on volume of 14,744 contracts. With only four days to go until the August 2 deadline, when the US Treasury says it will run out of funds, lawmakers in Washington remain short of a compromise debt plan. US stocks ended mixed in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite eked out a slight gain, rising 1.46 points (0.05 per cent) to 2,766.25. The US Treasury says that if the government's $US14.29 trillion ($A13.01 trillion) debt ceiling is not raised by Tuesday, it could be forced ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... for the fourth straight day, down 198.75 points, or 1.6% to 12,302.55, the Wall Street Journal reported. Demand for US Treasury debt was also poor at an auction, it said. Chris Molumphy, chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... Then again, all the profits in the world wouldn't matter if Uncle Sam is unable to service its debt. In a letter to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Matthew E. Zames -- JPMorgan Chase managing director and chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... said there was a rising possibility that the limit would not be raised on a timely basis, leading to a default on US Treasury debt obligations. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that a US default would spark a major international economic ...