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'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... tale of the tape over the past week showed that Wall Street was pleased - the VIX index, the US dollar index and US bond yields fell from the prior week (before the Fed) while the US equity market rose. Yippee-kay-yay! Kudos to Madame Janet for her craftily-crafted ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did the US dollar and US bond yields; US equities and commodity prices fell. This is because no matter how you slice, dice, chop or spin it - throw in Madame ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... seems rational. But with the Fed poised to raise interest rates some time, this looks like a recipe for losses - US bond yields go up, bond prices go down, Japanese investors lose. Not so, if you consider the rise and rise of the US dollar. US dollar ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... even falling in an indication of deflation." That was the day the S&P 500 dropped by around 3% intra-day, 10-year US bond yields fell below 2.0% intraday and the VIX jumped to a 30-plus reading intra-day. We know what happened then. The Fed, the BOE ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... tempered their worries about geopolitical threats and the Ebola virus which has killed more than 4,500 people. "US bond yields have come off quite significantly and a lot of investors are quite happy to look at buying some of these dips as well," he ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...

Most EM currencies bounce back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... saw them shift an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars from EMs back to US markets in readiness for rising US bond yields. The capital flight triggered the India Rupee to fall 13%, the Indonesian Rupiah to fall 8% and the Thai Baht to fall 3%. Even ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... York to Rio and old London town went higher punctuated by the Dow and the S&P 500 closing at new record highs. US bond yields and the US dollar fell (and the A$ rose). See? Told you the A$ weakness was more a US dollar story than the "Australia is headed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... growth forecast for 2013 to 3.1 per cent from 3.4 per cent. Peter Cardillo of Rockwell Global Capital said higher US bond yields have also sapped the equity market of momentum. LONDON - European stock markets retreated as investors reacted to a flood ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... US$533 billion withdrawn from equity funds, while inflows into fixed interest funds topped US$1 trillion. But with US bond yields now below 2%, concerns are growing that when yields eventually rise in the US, it will have a significant negative effect ...