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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... US sales of a poultry-pumping additive after studies showed it can leave traces of arsenic in chicken livers, the US government said. Bonds climbed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.96 per cent from 3.01 per cent late on Tuesday, while ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... pants into the sovereign debt crisis equation. Then there's the game of chicken currently showing in Washington. The US government's debt has hit the US$14,300,000,000,000 roof as politicians bicker over who's more patriotic. Politicians need to agree ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... US bond yields continue to head lower despite talks of inflation, PIMCO's announcement of its divestment of its US government bond holdings, and more recently, Standard & Poors' US sovereign credit rating downgrade warning. Does the bond market know ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... forex -- on fears Washington might not be able to resolve its financial problems. S&P said it did not see how the US government could reduce the massive public deficit -- estimated at $1.6 trillion this year, drawing an immediate Treasury riposte that ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Geithner has warned that failure to raise the statutory borrowing limit would ultimately lead to a default on the US government's obligations with catastrophic consequences for the economy.

Planners needle minister over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten fielded prickly questions from financial planners after giving a speech on the Future of Financial Advice reforms at a luncheon gathering yesterday. Minister Shorten told the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... great problem would come within the next five years if China moves into deficit and ceases to be a net buyer of US Government securities. China is the largest buyer of US Government securities after the US Federal Reserve. US Treasury statistics show ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... might as well be investors consolidating their profits ahead of the weekend -- the weekend of the day before the US government faces the risk of a shutdown. But even this shutdown is a non-issue, it'll ultimately be resolved one way or the other. Just ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... investors. Speaking of uncertainty, if you believe the scaremongers there's another one looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... fund managers assessing their exposure in the wake of the disaster. Japan is the second largest foreign holder of US Government bonds after China, holding $882.3 billion in treasuries as at the end of December 2010. The government will be under pressure ...