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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
The Australian bond market opened weaker today as good news in the US services industry and jobs pushed US Treasury yields up by as much as 10 basis points. At 0900 AEST, the yield on the Commonwealth Government February 2017 bond was at 6.243 per cent ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
China's runaway economy may be reason enough to cut the value of the yuan without any pressure from US Treasury, but pressure is gently mounting for a single Asian currency. According to Bloomberg, the Chinese Government is considering a currency revaluation ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... from the export dollars earned over the last few years. The existing reserves which have largely been invested in US Treasury bonds have been earning only a few per cent compared to the double digit returns available elsewhere. NSW Premier Morris Iemma ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... Kong blue-chips fell as investors locked in profits in recent high-fliers like telecoms firms, with many eyeing the US Treasury Secretary's Beijing visit for the outlook for the yuan. The benchmark Hang Seng index ended down one per cent, or 188.98 points ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... Beijing would allow a faster appreciation of the yuan in exchange for not being labelled a currency manipulator by the US Treasury. However, it appears that the protectionists in the US Congress want a more significant revaluation. The Schumer bill wants ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2006
... Brisbane while Rio Tinto iron ore chief executive Sam Walsh speaks in Perth. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as a rise in US Treasury debt yields reignited concerns about more interest-rate hikes ahead, pressuring such rate-sensitive stocks as American Express ...

Aust bond market opens broadly unchanged ahead of US jobs report

... close and the three-year contract was steady at 94.73. Overnight, Australian bond prices initially rose in line with US Treasury prices but then followed them in drifting lower after the release of generally positive economic data. The US Institute for ...

Hedge funds bearish greenback and stocks: Van survey

... while almost half expect the S&P 500 Index of US equities to fall and 44% anticipate a rise in the price of 10-year US Treasury notes, according to the latest monthly survey by US-based Van Hedge Fund Advisors International. The bearish outlook for the ...

WRAP: Overnight debt and forex

The US Treasury market ended mixed [overnight], after a major rout on Friday prompted by unexpectedly strong April employment data. The short end of the yield curve clawed back only a small part of the 0.25% rises in yield on Friday, but the long end ...

Market Wrap

... Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York, said Greenspan had "effectively endorsed" the view of US Treasury Secretary Snow that the decline in the dollar is not an immediate concern since it has not been disorderly. In addition, Greenspan ...