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Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... disappointment that the European Central Bank did not announce a program specifically to support the Spanish and Italian government debt markets. "Bond yields have been pushing up over 6% - an interest rate almost certainly neither government can afford ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Washington deadlock over raising the US debt ceiling sent stocks tumbling on Monday, as the August 2 date to avoid a government debt default grew closer with no deal in sight. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 88.36 points (0.70 per cent) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... a day after its downgrade of Portugal, while anxious bond investors drove up yields for Spanish and Portuguese government debt. On Wall Street, blue-chip industrial stocks performed well, with Caterpillar and DuPont leading the Dow with gains of 1.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... banking sector was the main factor contributing to the market's losses. He said Moody's downgrade of Portugal's government debt overnight was the reason for weakness in the banking sector. "Portugal was downgraded to junk status overnight and maybe the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... in London -- both gained more than two dollars a barrel. Bond prices dropped as investors left the safety of US government debt for riskier assets such as stocks. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 3.05 per cent from 2.93 per cent on Monday ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
Rolling, rolling, rolling. The bad news continue to roll - or rather people have convinced themselves, and others, that it's a bad, bad world out there and getting 'badder.' Pastor "prophet of the real doom" Camping's "rapture" might be coming sooner ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... help reduce the deficit - and that inflation does not turn into deflation - which would raise the "real" cost of government debt. We all know that nobody wins betting against the Fed.

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... attitudes following its 2005 purchase of computer giant IBM. China already holds an estimated $800 billion in US government debt and any new infrastructure investment, which would be on top of a $1.6 billion placement in March, would be a sign that investment ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... Poor's downgrade of its long-term credit rating to AA- from AA. "The downgrade reflects our appraisal that Japan's government debt ratios -- already among the highest for rated sovereigns -- will continue to rise further than we envisaged before the ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... questioning the government's capacity to reduce spending next year sent credit default swap rates against Irish government debt surging to a record 598 basis points. Spanish CDS also rose to record highs. Could this be November 2009 redux when debt problems ...