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Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... April, underscoring the continued weakness of the world's largest economy. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 2.93 per cent from 2.87 per cent on Friday, while that on the 30-year bond climbed to 4.28 per cent from 4.17 ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... the Greeks and the Eurozone got here. Now it's time for a real solution. I thought of suggesting doing what former US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady did to solve the Latin American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 3.1 billion shares. Bond prices fell slightly. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 2.96 per cent from 2.94 per cent on Friday, while that on the 30-year bond was practically unchanged at 4.20 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... prices plunged 4.6 per cent in New York. Bond prices leapt as investors sought safer assets. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note fell to 2.97 per cent from 3.10 per cent on Tuesday, while that on the 30-year bond dropped to 4.20 per cent from 4.30 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... billion ($A4.73 billion) insurance giant. Shares of Allied fell 4.5 per cent. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 2.99 per cent from 2.97 per cent on Friday, while that on the 30-year bond rose to 4.21 per cent from 4.18 ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... economic conditions continue to deteriorate. What about the mounting US deficit and its "looming" debt crisis? That's the US Treasury's job and its problem. Not the Fed's. The Fed's main concern is employment and inflation. Should conditions get bad ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... thing. China, the biggest owner of US Treasuries, would suffer a substantial loss. And that's another bad, bad thing. US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner warned that if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling by 2 August, it would have a "catastrophic ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... North American country, which must seek approval from congress to increase the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling by May. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned that failure to raise the statutory borrowing limit would ultimately lead to a default ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... of US Government securities. China is the largest buyer of US Government securities after the US Federal Reserve. US Treasury statistics show China sold down its stake from US$1.175 trillion in October 2010 to US$1.160 trillion in December. Further problems ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... 2008 to bailout America's "troubled" banks and financial institutions at the height of the GFC. Turns out that the US Treasury made a good investment out of that one. Reuters reported last night that two banks -- rumoured to be Sun Trust Banks and KeyCorp ...