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Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... in US second quarter real GDP growth from strong - 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields on 10-year Treasuries rose to 2.53% at the close of trade Friday from 2.50% the previous day. ...

'Bond King' Bill Gross leaves Pimco

AAP  |  SATURDAY, 27 SEP 2014
NEW YORK, Sept 26 AP - The biggest star in the bond market has shocked the financial world by leaving the huge money management firm he has led for four decades and joining a much smaller rival. Bill Gross, who co-founded the investment giant Pimco ...

BNP Paribas granted on-shore renminbi licence

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The asset management arm of BNP Paribas has been granted a RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) license by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The license will enable BNP Paribas Investment Partners to provide its clients ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... that is.A Then it really is growing above potential. Normally, it's easy to discern Japan's outlook from the Japanese bond market. Ten-year JGB's are currently trading around 0.56% -- that's down from 0.74% at the start of 2014 and down from 0.78% on ...

AllianceBernstein set to launch three renminbi funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... investment market, describing it as a "once-in-a lifetime development with profound implications." "China's government bond market is already the third-biggest in the world and will account for an estimated 12% of global bond indices when included within ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... friend Ben to hold fire on taper despite widespread market expectations. By the same token, today's sanguine equity and bond market and VIX reaction increases the likelihood that we could see a change in the words "considerable time" this September t ...

Coffey to raise $40 million via bond market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... duration of its debt funding. "Coffey's bond offering is another positive development for the expanding Australian bond market for midsized corporates," Paton said. The number of non-bank corporate bond issues in Australia is on the rise and new reforms ...

Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... franking credits, which it suggested creates a domestic equities bias and prevents the development of a corporate bond market. "While we cannot attest if the imputation system has had the suggested impact on the domestic corporate bond market, we can ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... But it's a zero sum game for one airline's loss is another's gain. So again, Vlad is not all bad after all. The US bond market says so. Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries went from 2.49% the day before to all of 2.483% at the close of today's ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... or all these scares eventuate. The Fed might even 'untaper' instead. Janet Yellen won't simply let it happen. The bond market knows this. Despite the 'scary' 2.0% fall in the S&P last Thursday, you have to go the third decimal point to see any movement ...