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Asian bonds insulated from Cyprus turmoil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... 2013. Chan was also unfazed by concerns of a bubble forming in fixed income assets. "The upward movement on 10-year Treasuries is also going to be very, very slow. The US economy is a long way off achieving the Fed's unemployment target."

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... Nevertheless, this latest bout of financial market volatility has brought not a few investors back into the safety of US Treasuries. The yield on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries dipped below 2.0% on the Cyprus conundrum after gradually edging up over ...

Australia is world leader in treasury: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... the level of sophistication of the companies when it comes to treasury and how are they set up. "A large number of treasuries in Australia are hosting their global treasury centers out of the country, which means that a lot of Australian treasuries have ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... and more than offset by the Fed's monthly purchases of MBS worth around US$40 billion monthly and US$45 billion in US Treasuries. So net-net, the US economy is still getting stimulated, is it not? And this is happening at the same time that the national ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... most expect "Bernanke will push on with purchases of $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and $45 billion a month of Treasuries" with the "latest round of bond buying will reach $1.14 trillion before he ends the program in the first quarter of 2014". ...

Fed ECB BOJ, Unlimited

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013

Global bond melt-down on cards: Harris Fraser

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... holders of US debt, the large institutions are going to get hit by this," said Geary who has ditched his allocation to treasuries and begun taking profits on his other fixed income holdings. "I'm scared by this potential melt-down scenario," he added. ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... concluded, these are not "pure defaults-but as instances of defaults and restructuring". This is perhaps the reason why US Treasuries remain the go to asset class in times of uncertainty and trouble, even if it's over its own.

2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... after the new chief of the central bank accidentally signalled recently a weakening resolve to control inflation. US Treasuries may not be overly attractive in this environment noting that in nations with proper political governance this would trigger ...

Down, down interest rates are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012