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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... Nasdaq composite index fell 88.47, or 5.78 per cent, to 1,440.86. Bond prices fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 2.46 per cent from 2.34 per cent late on Friday. The yield on the three-month ...

IFSA backs govt tax proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has thrown its support behind a Treasury proposal to provide an optional capital gains tax roll-over concessions to merging super funds. Under existing rules, if a super fund in a prospective ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... rate proxy for certificate of deposits purchased through the fund's Alaska CD program. These CDs are purchased from US Treasury Bills, and the new rate follows the short-term rate published by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. The logic behind this ...

Vanguard launches gov bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... (bonds) issued by the Commonwealth Government of Australia and Australian State Government guaranteed authorities and treasury corporations. Roger McIntosh, principal and head of fixed iInterest, Vanguard Investments Australia said a key feature of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... White House said failure to pass the measure could lead to bankruptcy for one or more of the Big Three automakers. In the Treasury market, the yield on the three-month T-bill stood at 0.02 per cent, unchanged from late Wednesday. The low yield still ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... expectations that Congress will extend a lifeline to US automakers and avoid a potential pitfall for the economy. In the Treasury market, the four-week bill auctioned with a zero percent yield on Tuesday saw that rate increase. Stocks rose following ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... 2.31 percent, to 888.67. The Nasdaq composite index fell 24.40, or 1.55 percent, to 1,547.34. Bond prices rose after the Treasury auction and as stocks fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 2.66 ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... equities. This would be another one of those dead cat bounces such as the one that greeted the announcement of the US Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Even if these were to be followed by concrete action and while we could be assured ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... ending a winning streak that had sent yields to record lows for much of the week. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, jumped to 2.71 per cent from 2.56 per cent late Thursday. LONDON - European stock markets ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... sheet, beyond expanding our lending to financial institutions.' Among these, he contemplates Fed purchases of longer-term Treasury or agency securities on the open market. This will bring yields lower and buoy domestic demand, particularly business investment ...