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Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... as earlier thought." This comes only a day following reports that the US Federal Reserve is looking at implementing yield curve control (to step up its support for the economy); the European Central Bank (ECB) warning that the Eurozone economy is approaching ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
As COVID-19 batters the once celebrated yield-providing banks, investors have turned to corporate bonds in their search for income. Amid the spiraling economic environment, investors have become increasingly aware of the difference between "dividends" ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... escaped from a lab in Wuhan or jumped from a bat or pangolin into humans (take your pick). That other curve -- the yield curve (which presages a US recession) - rules (again), reinforcing its predictive power. Back in August last year, I boldly went ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... respectively); it will continue purchases of ETFs and J-REITS; and maintain its "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control". This follows Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement in early April "to carry out an unprecedentedly ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... into a modesty risk-averse state. With markets falling, so did credit, he said. "US Treasury yields dropped, with the yield curve flattening and the 10 year yield trading at 0.59 per cent," Rodda said. Gold on the other hand, jumped more than 1%, he ...

Cashwerkz announces new chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... Cashwerkz said. "He will leverage his vast experience to innovate product and technology services up the defensive yield curve and generate further revenue opportunities." Lechte worked as head of markets and director at Fiig Securities where he led ...

Chief economist update: It's the US consumer, stupid me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... economy and the Fed's response is turning out to be. I've been among those pencilling in a recession when the US yield curve inverted around the middle of last year and believed that the Fed would need to cut interest rates by at least another ...

Chief economist update: Stock rally heralds 2020 cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... 24.0% this year to date. This is a sharp turnaround from last year's loss of 9.1% and five months before the US yield curve - the differential between the yield on US 10-year Treasuries and 3-month bills - started to invert. The same goes for emerging ...

Where to invest when a GFC looms

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... additional gains simply because with bond yields so low they see no other alternative. "Even after witnessing an inverted yield curve one month and watching it return to normal the next, it appears that institutions are happy to play the hand they've ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... Seems so easy to kill Bill and his team with this so "off the mark" prediction. Then again, a look back at the US yield curve gave me pause for thought that... Bill could be correct. For sure, the US yield curve - yield differential between 10-year US ...