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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 ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... Fed to deliver the much-speculated "Operation Twist" - to lower the cost of capital by putting a ceiling on 10-year Treasuries -- when it holds its FOMC meeting this week. Let's wait and see. Still, chances are that any goodwill this brings would be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... although such a step is likely to be fiercely resisted by Germany. Bond prices were mixed, with prices on shorter-dated Treasuries falling but prices on long-term Treasuries climbing. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 2.01 per cent from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Cardillo, chief market economist of Rockwell Global Capital. Shell-shocked investors scurried for the safety of US Treasuries, sending the yield on the 10-year note to its lowest level in history. Bond prices closed the day with solid gains even after ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... Fed Officials" to know why. But in case, you didn't get it first time, here's Reuters' headline: "US stocks falter, Treasuries, Swiss franc gain." Not clear enough, here's a paragraph from 'BusinessDay with AAP' that spells it out, "Most US stocks fell ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... USA no longer AAA for the first time in 70 years. But at the same time, we also saw investors pouring funds into US Treasuries - yep those credit instruments that S&P has just marked as less creditworthy. Yes, there were worse-than-expected economic ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... could speak of low interest rates for an extremely long period of time, or extend the duration of its portfolio of treasuries, or cut interest rates on reserves. "There are a few policy tools at its disposal but beyond those the market is probably speculating ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... running scared of the grim slasher that is Standard & Poor's? If they were, why have the yields of the US curve for Treasuries with maturities from two through to 30 years fallen (prices have risen)? Are bond market investors deaf -- are they blind - ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... eroding the purchasing power of their investments. Bill Gross, managing director of bond fund PIMCO, sold out of US Treasuries in March. In his August investment outlook, he wrote that investors should logically ask how the US would meet its obligations. ...