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US agencies act to prevent crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... companies confirm minimal exposures to the Silicon Valley Bank failure. Early this morning, a joint statement from US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, Fed chair Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance chair Martin Gruenberg announced all insured ...

Global X drops management fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... Global X ETFs Australia has reduced the management fees of two ETFs. Specifically, the management fee for Global X US Treasury Bond ETF (Currency Hedged) has been lowered from 0.3% to 0.2% and the management fee for Global X USD High Yield Bond ETF (Currency ...

ETF Securities launches fixed income options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2022
ETF Securities is expanding its product range with the launch of a US Treasury Bond fund and a USD high-yield corporate bond fund. The new funds are the ETFS US Treasury Bond ETF and ETFS USD High Yield Bond ETF (both currency hedged). ETF Securities ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... most central banks (led by the Fed) still thinks that the recent surge in inflation is transitory. More recently, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen noted that while she expects inflation to ease in the second half of next year as supply chain bottlenecks ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... reported. Likewise, the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% in April from 6.0% in the previous month. Fortunately for US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, she was quick to walk back her talk at the "Future Economic Summit" suggesting that interest rates ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... America's public debt soared from US$9 trillion to US$21 trillion between 2010 and 2020. So much so that benchmark 10-year US Treasury bond yields have risen to a 14-month high of 1.78%. This suggests that Uncle Sam would be paying higher interest ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street can't have its cake and eat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... romantic comedy film, "something's gotta give"... and that, Virginia, is the US bond market. The yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds have been on the rise. No need for numbers, the chart below says it all: Yields have been going up and up because ...

Chief economist update: Amber alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... thereafter. It could be that this time is different. But there's also Murphy's Law. The recent rise in 10-year US Treasury bond yields - up to a one-year high of 1.31% -- serves as a yellow light -- an amber alert -- to the equity markets. But ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards." - Shane Patton Did current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (under Biden's administration) just call former US Secretary Lawrence Summers (under Clinton's) a coward? I refer of ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... interest rates soon unless it foresees rising inflation or imbalances in the economy. In her confirmation hearing, US Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen declared that with interest rates at historic lows, the smartest thing is to "act big" on COVID-19 ...