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Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... has a direct line to the US bond auction system. It is now the only central bank in the world that can purchase US Treasuries without going through America's primary dealers. This move is designed to encourage China to continue stocking up US paper while ...

MMADX appoints new executive director

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... officer for Global Markets, leading the business in Australia, UK, US, New Zealand and Asia. During his 25-year career in treasuries and global markets he has worked for firms including ABN AMRO, BZW and Barclays Bank. Go said the opportunity to build ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... policies. The Fed has kept interest rates at 0-0.25% since December 2008, bought around US$2,300,000,000,000 worth of US Treasuries and pledged to keep the fed funds rate at "exceptionally low" levels "at least through late 2014". But it ain't good enough. ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... good is that? That's heaps better than the current 0% Americans can get on cash or the 2.3% yield offered by 10-year Treasuries. While the bugbear that is Europe is seemingly at peace now after Greece got its second bailout, there's still Murphy's Law ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... stopped counting its gains at five weeks - for it went down on the sixth - and investors ran for cover back into US Treasuries, taking the 10-year yield back below 2.0% at the end of last week. Yes Virginia, Europe is talking too loudly again. Greece ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on banks have led to a commonwealth and state-debt buying spree. "With US treasuries, UK gilts and German bunds offering record low yields due to flight-to-safety buying, the higher-yielding Australian ...

UBS: Political turmoil adding to market woes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... markets as "pricing in internally inconsistent outcomes," the result of which would be further volatility for 2012. "Treasuries and gold are the hedges against things going wrong in the global economy; equities are the hedges against things going right. ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Italian bond market confusion is pushing money towards US treasuries, resulting in 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 ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... problem of lowering the cost of capital for businesses and homeowners, most of which are tied to the rates of longer-term Treasuries while at the same time silencing the critics of its expanding balance sheet - Operation Twist has a zero net effect on ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... Britton recommends looking beyond a standard global bond benchmark, which are packed with low reward US and Japanese treasuries, paying close to 1.9% and 1% respectively. "A better way is to get a good diversified benchmark and we've been working to ...