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Economic recap: Week to October 15

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... tantrum, US equities rose - the S&P 500 index gained 1.7% on the day of the minutes were released; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries declined from 1.58% to 1.55%; and the US dollar index was little changed to 93.20 from 93.16. Not even when on the same ...

Crypto fund hires from Blue Sky

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... trend of North American companies implementing digital asset treasury strategies," he said. "Bitcoin held in corporate treasuries over the circulating supply has reached an all-time high at 8.7%, despite the recent market cooldown. That list is currently ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... concerns that the American economy has reached "peak growth" and therefore, "peak inflation. The yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped to a near-five-month low of 1.29% before closing at 1.35% at the end of last week - down from this year's high ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... plots). US equities painted the board red, with all benchmark indices closing on the down low, while yields on 10-year US Treasuries went on the up and up. This is because while the much-anticipated June FOMC meeting produced no change in the prevailing ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
The US dollar weakened, so too did the yield on 10-year US Treasuries while the equity market's benchmark indices closed on the up and up as inflation expectations in Uncle Sam's county eased, calming concerns that the US Federal Reserve would ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... appropriate for us to start talking about adjusting those purchases [the Fed's US$120 billion monthly purchases of US Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities] while at the same time repeating his expectation that the US central bank will ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... money and expectations of more money, money, money. The bond market's going the other way as the yield on US 10-year Treasuries have been moving on up and is now at par with pre-pandemic levels as inflation expectations - as measured by the differential ...

ETF liquidity disappears: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... turmoil that occurred at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even what is considered the most liquid market, US Treasuries, did not escape the fear impacting investors. This had a flow on effect, Morningstar found, to all ETF products holding these ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... Federal Reserve was itself busily trying to "lower the temperature" in the bond markets that saw the yield on 10-year US Treasuries more than double from 2020's low of 0.5% to 1.1%. Thanks to Factset, I don't have to reinvent the wheel: "Speaking ...

Manipulative trading at J.P. Morgan costs it over $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... historical manipulative trading practices by the global banking and financial services giant in the precious metals and US treasuries markets, spanning more than eight years and thousands of unlawful trades. "The conduct of the individuals referenced ...