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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... seeks to achieve $US4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the US government's huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits. WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ...

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
Central banks are lobbying the US government to relax key aspects of the Volcker Rule that they fear could weaken trading volumes for their sovereign bonds. The Volcker Rule was introduced by the Obama administration following the Global Financial Crisis ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... because of misleading marketing related to its painkilling drug Vioxx. On the bond market, the interest paid by the US government on 10-year bonds fell to 1.92 per cent from 1.97 per cent the day before. On the 30-year bond, the rate was also down to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... declines at the open, given the disappointing night on Wall Street as investors fretted over worries about the level of US government debt, and news of a possible ratings downgrade for France. IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said the offshore reaction ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... University economist Zhing Wei is that, "Cheap Chinese goods have been a subsidy for the poor in the US, and now the US government wants to eliminate such subsidy while it's having difficulty creating jobs." So China will just have to cut their export ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... Italian bond yields soaring and US bond yields contracting. Responding to the money shifts, Reuters has reported US government bond prices gaining ground as investors flee the Italian market, the third biggest bond market in the world. "There's just ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... of European financial ministers had been canceled. Assets that tend to hold their value in a weak economy, like US government debt and gold, rose. Manufacturing conglomerate 3M cut its 2011 earnings forecast, and US Steel warned that demand for its products ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... reflecting the persistent weakness of the US job market. Bond prices surged as investors flocked to the safety of US government debt, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note sinking to a new record low. The 10-year yield stood below 1.72 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... Fed's measures, Moody's downgraded three top US banks - Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup - as it sees the US government less willing than before to rescue them if they become unstable. RBS Morgans client adviser Bill Bishop said the US market ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... central bank. The Fed's capital gains translates into earnings for the US Treasury and at the same time lowers the US government's cost of borrowing and debt repayments. And as for Wall Street, lower long-term interest rates reduce (further) the attraction ...