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Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... anyways. PIMCO CEO and co-CIO Mohamed El-Arian takes first bite. "You will have cascading failure, multiple defaults, and Treasuries that act as collateral would be very difficult to exchange and people will simply step back. It will be like Lehman ...

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... government out of commission. The S&P 500 index closed 0.80% points higher on the day. And while the yield on 10-year US Treasuries rose, it wasn't by much. It ended 0.04 percentage point higher to 2.65% which, in turn, is still 0.35 percentage point ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... financial markets - that have already factored in the inevitable - to delay the inevitable? The yield on US 10-year Treasuries are now trading at 2.72%, 110 basis points more than the 1.62% low it was at last 2 May.A And this has already created havoc ...

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013

More taper talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013

Biggest weekly drop since and other scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013

Strong US recovery to send bond yields through the roof

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... this scenario the market would lose faith in the Fed's ability to exit quantitative easing causing yields on 10-year Treasuries to spike to 8-10% and big falls in asset prices." "The stronger the US economy become, the greater the risk of this scenario." ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... day! But this isn't the case. The prospect of Fed taper still has the bond market on defensive. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose to 2.57% last night - 4 bps up from a day before and 117 bps from a year ago. Thus, me no surprise at Bloomberg's report ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... for the stock market...perhaps, even better now. US equities are advancing at the same time that yields on 10-year US Treasuries have remained around 2.5%. Stocks had a different reaction back on 22 May when yields started rising above 2.0%. It's all ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... read somewhere that money's for a September start (when) and by US$10 billion withdrawal each (how much) for MBS and Treasuries. And last week's data was good. US construction spending and motor vehicle sales came in better than market expectations. ...