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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... had traded between 103.57 and 103.05 US cents during the local session on Friday morning. Meanwhile, the Australian bond market was weaker at noon as market sentiment improved, causing local traders to sell safe-haven bonds in favour of relatively riskier ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Investors panicked sending the Australian stock market into freefall and bond markets soaring, following large losses on Wall Street. In morning trade, the All Ordinaries index plummeted 211.2 points or 5.21% to 3845.5, while the S&P/ASX 200 lapsed ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... yields of the US curve for Treasuries with maturities from two through to 30 years fallen (prices have risen)? Are bond market investors deaf -- are they blind - to S&P's warning that USA would be harder to put to repay its debt obligations? But no ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to follow Wall Street into another day of steep declines, after New York indices all plunged by around six per cent overnight. At 0721 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 153 ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... grow and of course the best way to get their financial house in order is through a strong economy." * For more on the bond market see the upcoming August 15 print edition of Financial Standard.

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... more. They can cut spending to the bone but without growth, not a single cent of debt can be repaid. Told you the US bond market was onto something when yields continued to decline (investors were buying US bonds despite intensified speculation on the ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I carry on?" - ABBA Now you believe me? The US bond market had been correct all along. America's growth deficit is the major pain and not its debt ceiling and fiscal deficit. Have to ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... same ones warning about giving Uncle Sam the snip just two weeks ago. They changed their tune perhaps because the US bond market was not with them - it was against them. Instead of rising - as would be expected given warnings of a downgrade - US bond ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... to follow if a deal isn't reached by Tuesday next week. But as we Australians say, "she'll be right mate." The US bond market agrees. Yields of 10-year Treasuries have come down by 4 basis points to 2.95% overnight. Like I said yesterday, if you want ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... the true reading of the financial market's pulse over this debt issue - there's no other place to look but at the US bond market. Re this, Bloomberg tried to spin it to fit the thesis that investors are fearful. "... 10-year Treasury note yields increased ...