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Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
If even a dog can have his day, why not bears? Can't blame 'em Virginia, it's May after all - that month of the year when you, I and Irene are supposed to "sell and go away". But, but... but it may be more than the seasonality this May that's' taking ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... trillion yen (an addition of about 30 trillion yen compared with the past)... The average remaining maturity of the Bank's JGB purchases will be extended to about 7-10 years (an extension of about 3 years at maximum compared with the past)." "The Bank ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
The answers to our niggling questions - we got most of 'em last week. Like a well-scripted slasher thriller, we've got the thrills, the spills, chilling suspense and then at the end of the day... the good guy gets the girl and walks. Financial markets ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... 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 26 December 2012 ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... from minus 8 in the first. And get this...confidence among Japanese manufacturers has improved despite the recent increase in JGB yields (which appear to have settled at the mid 0.8% level from 0.5% two months before). And then there's the Australian ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... There's the yen rebound and lower-than-expected China manufacturing PMI - not good for exports. There was the spike in 10-year JGB yields following BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's 'revelation' to expect bond yields to rise as the economy improved (at ...

No promises, promises for Kuroda

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... bonds (JGBs) as well as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in two years, and more than double the average remaining maturity of JGB purchases." You want more? There's more. "...the Bank will purchase ETFs and Japan real estate investment trusts (J-REITs) so ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...