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Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go." Oh yes Virginia, happy days have come back. Wall Street's up, Europe's up, Asia and Australia are up and up. Scan through the headlines and you get the impression that though all remains ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... legally binding and enforceable. These, authorities hope, would encourage the European Central Bank (ECB) to step up its bond market intervention. With rumours about gossips about talks again swirling all around, you get the feeling that there's another ...

Volcker Rule dramatics continue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... to be help protect banks from future failure is being torn between critics who think it will gut the US corporate bond market and Congressmen who think it still contains too many loopholes. Meanwhile, former US Treasury Secretary Paul Volcker who proposed ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... nearly $US1 billion ($A1.02 billion) because of misleading marketing related to its painkilling drug Vioxx. On the bond market, the interest paid by the US government on 10-year bonds fell to 1.92 per cent from 1.97 per cent the day before. On the 30-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite world stock markets coming under pressure as the eurozone debt crisis continues to push most European government borrowing costs dangerously higher. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the December ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... cent after announcing some $740 million in investments to expand production in the United States and Indonesia. The bond market was closed. Yields late Thursday stood at 2.06 per cent for the 10-year Treasury, while the 30-year Treasury was at 3.11 per ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... a closely watched auction which at least attracted substantial interest. Italian borrowing rates on the secondary bond market exceeding seven per cent on Wednesday are too high for Rome to be able to fund its public deficit over the longer-term but they ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Italian bond market confusion is pushing money towards US treasuries, resulting in Italian bond yields soaring and US bond yields contracting. Responding to the money shifts, Reuters has reported US government bond prices gaining ground as investors ...

Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... Silvio's exit offers hope but it doesn't change these worrying debt metrics. This is the same conclusion reached by the bond market - with Italian 10-year bond yields closing at the day's high of 6.77% despite news of his resignation. To see what the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... hit 6.402 per cent, topping the 6.397 per cent reached in August when the ECB was forced to intervene to prop up the bond market. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell on renewed fears for the eurozone after Greece was dealt an ultimatum over its plan to hold ...