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Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... reported that big US bond holders - China, Japan, Russia and Brazil) - are looking into shifting their reserves from US Treasuries into multicurrency bonds in order to hedge against potential disastrous losses on their investments due to soaring US government ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... Bear case: 12 minus 5 equals 7 districts noting no improvement or deterioration. US bond yields. Bulls: 10-year US Treasuries have fallen below 4 per cent last night and rising yields are indicative of the financial system going back to normality. Bears ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... reason why the US equity market rose overnight was because US interest rates - specifically the yield on US 10-year Treasuries - fell while we were sleeping. Rising benchmark rates threaten further improvement in the US housing market through higher ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... too. US long-term bond yields are rising. Either the US Federal Reserve will have to keep on printing money to buy Treasuries to keep the rates down - not good for America's credit rating - or just let yields ride higher - not good for mortgage rates ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... United States rose 4.7 per cent in February after six months of consecutive declines. The yield on the US ten-year Treasuries rose 0.09 percentage point to 2.79 per cent. LONDON - European stocks ended mixed on Tuesday with London falling 11.21 points ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... would do the shopping for them to rescue the economy. The Fed announced that it would buy US$300 billion of long-term Treasuries over the next six months. It would also purchase an additional US$750 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities and US$100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... to 3386.2. NEW YORK - US stocks gained as the Federal Reserve said after its policy meeting it will buy long-term US Treasuries in its push to revive the recession-hit economy. In afternoon trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 50.18 points ...

Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Investors with funds invested in US Treasuries should hang on to their investments for at least the next six months - despite some punters voicing fears that the sector might be next asset class in the US to implode, according to an industry expert. ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... households - personal loans, student loans, mortgages, etc. - and businesses. The Fed also mentioned buying longer-term Treasuries. Recently, the establishment of an "aggregator bank" akin to the Resolution and Trust Corporation (RTC) which was established ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... recession is deepening - and so is the world's - have prompted investors to seek shelter in the relative safety of US Treasuries pushing the yield on 10-year maturities to a 55-year low of 2.08 per cent and 30-years to 2.55 per cent. For a quick reference ...