Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 521 - 530 of 792 results for "Bond market"

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... noted that the positive impact of monetary policy and lower oil prices are being underestimated and that the corporate bond market has improved in 2009. Perhaps we are living in a world of fools, where the sane man is the fool, the idiot and worse, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... consumers are still too hesitant about the economy and their own job security to spend freely. Interest rates fell in the bond market as Treasury prices rose. Investors were betting that a weak recovery will force the Federal Reserve to keep interest ...

Baby steps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... and bond markets falling after the announcement. Bond markets sure. That's why the almost immediate reaction from bond market gurus to contain the damage (wait, I somehow recall saying early in the year to underweight bonds didn't I?) This is what Pimco's ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... costs. So what the hell were the previous weeks' market rattle all about? My guess is they were sensationalised by US bond market peddlers. They are the ones that benefited most from the recent scare. US bond yields fell and prices went up. They had ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... difficult to contain its budget deficit of around 13 per cent of its national output. This provides a preview of what the bond market vigilantes could do to force fiscal discipline on a country - any country. Greece sinking alone would not be a worry ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
A leading fixed income manager likens the market to a car careening into a frozen pond and fishtailing before steadying - except the car could still crash and is still on thin ice. Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at $10 billion-plus fund manager ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... year. There are many possible explanations for the rise in long-term US yields. From traders switching out of the bond market and into riskier assets, to rising inflation expectations, to increased default risk due to the size of the government debt. ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Get shorty! Equity markets, commodity markets, corporate bond markets and all other riskier asset markets continue to extend their gains early in 2010. But somehow, the uptrend does not look as convincing as last year's rally. Are markets psyching themselves ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... the six investment choices are ETFs or based on ETFs managed by BGI (now BlackRock): a government securities fund, a bond market ETF, a US equities ETF, a US small cap ETF, an international equities ETF, and target date funds that are composites of the ...

PIMCO to expand Australian product suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
PIMCO Australia is looking to launch a number of new products to the local market including the possibility of distributing products from its newly opened global equities business and also developing an Australian bond exchange traded fund (ETF). Peter ...