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Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... dip at worst and produce only slow growth at best, US bond yields would be coming back down. Instead, they are now at pre-Lehman Bros. Levels. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose by more than 150 basis points from 2.25 per cent at the start of 2009 ...

Mahogany enters voluntary administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... "The removal of these monies left Mahogany with limited funds," noted the statement. "As the litigation relating to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and its consequences is now almost certain to continue well into 2010 in both the UK and the USA, Mahogany ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... Fed's balance sheet, think about the US Treasury's massive leverage. And then overlay that with the mighty strong and safe Lehman Brothers. Safe haven US dollar my foot! Yes, we all know the answer. The Fed is flooding the system with dollars causing ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... currency -lower. It's fortunate that the US$ depreciation has been orderly...so far. But what happens when like the scripts of Lehman et al, the greenback drops? If it happens at this point of the economic cycle, a stagflation in the US becomes a real ...

Perpetual close to recovering $125m for Mahogany

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... Trustees came a step closer to recovering the $125 million frozen from Mahogany Capital noteholders since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following its second successful court ruling in the United Kingdom last week. Perpetual (PTCo) commenced legal ...

Nomura expands local business

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... investment banking at Nomura Asia ex-Japan. Schiffman said the bank's capabilities were strengthened with its purchase of Lehman Brothers' Asian franchise.

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Head fake. So which one is the head fake? The Dow climbing past 10,000 or the Dow sinking below 10K? Over the past three trading days, the Dow has been playing seesaw on the 10,000 fulcrum -- over 10K Thursday, under 10K Friday, over 10K Monday. To ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as ...

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... each other - is back to its historical norm of around 10 basis points. It blew up at a high of more than 360 bps after Lehman Brothers collapsed last year. This narrowing spread - courtesy of falling Libor rates - is evidence that the money flooded into ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... security were put on review for a downgrade shortly thereafter. Yes, this happened in January - a full 16 months after Lehman's collapse sucked the whole world down into a vortex of what is now known as the GFC. According to the WSJ, Kolchinsky wrote ...