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Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... only three months ago... and go long duration at that. Since he made the call on 14 March, the price of US 10-year Treasuries have fallen by 3.4% and the 'longer-duration' 30-years are down 4.6%. I'm on a roll so let's not stop there. In April this year ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... now Virginia. We're about to re-live the nightmare again. The problem this time is that the 'go to' asset class - US Treasuries -- during times like these are the very ones that are being hammered more and their volatility spiking way up into the stratosphere. ...

Will Australia escape an EM bond crisis?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... yields from more traditional investments. "Pension funds and insurance companies have thought of these [EM bonds] as treasuries with yield, which they are definitely not," Goodwin said. But he said these "tourist investors" could leave as quickly as ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... sooner rather than later. The prospect of reduced money printing by the US central bank sent the yield on 10-year US Treasuries soaring from a five-month low of 1.63% on the 2nd of May to around 2.21% currently. US bond prices - as measured by the JP ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... Equity markets are now turning on their head with investors, according to reports, rotating back into the 'safety' of US Treasuries. Stupid, right? Stupid why? Stupid why is because the death of QE would hit bonds more than it does equities. Yet, we ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... growth-orientated scripts. Easy! Then again, perhaps not. Not according to the bond market, that is. The yield on 10-year Treasuries dropped by 0.05 percentage point to 2.12% last night - when talks of scaling back QE returned -- from 2.17% the day before ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... consumer prices fell 0.4 per cent in April and annual inflation was 1.1 per cent. St George economist Janu Chan said US Treasuries and Australian bond futures prices strengthened after the disappointing figures. "Sentiment weakened with the run of US ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... purchases (quantitative easing) for longer." Ms Chan said the continuation of quantitative easing helped support US Treasuries prices. At 0830 AEST on Thursday, the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.750 (implying a yield of 3.250 per ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... shiny metal to the CBs - it was what they termed, a "non-appreciating, non-interest bearing asset. So they went for US Treasuries which, over the same period, fell from 4.53% to below 2.0%. That was until the CB's agreed not sell more than 2,000 tonnes ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... those trillions of yen seeking higher yields. PIMCO boss, Bill Gross, anticipates that some of these will flow onto US Treasuries. He's reportedly raised his holdings of US 10-year bonds to 33% of the Total Return Fund's assets in March because, "This ...