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Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... even greater fear in financial markets than the one witnessed in 2008. Take away the spin - mainly coming from the bond market as it has the most to lose - and no matter how it is sliced, diced and dissected, debt repayment is good. If not, credit rating ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
Australian shares are expected to rise on Wednesday after commodity prices, including gold, oil and copper, gained in New York overnight. At 0715 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 24 points higher at 3,968. ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... ballooning deficit. These are all equally valid arguments. But it could also be that yields are rising because the bond market - like its equity cousin - is coming to accept the view that economic conditions are improving. The backup in yields in recent ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... back in the early 2000's, then Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, was even contemplating of ditching the country's bond market - we have more than enough, we don't need to borrow, we will have surpluses as far as the eye can see! The recession we had ...

First corporate bond issue of 2009

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Australia's moribund corporate bond market showed signs of life this week when Australia Post launched a medium-term note issue. The issue will price later this week but the joint lead managers, ANZ and Commonwealth Bank, are confident that pricing ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... 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 ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... safety? Really? Fears about the economic outlook and a helping hand from the US Federal Reserve has pushed up the US bond market over the past few months. Fresh signs that the American economic recession is deepening - and so is the world's - have prompted ...

QIC calls for better liquidity risk mgmt

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... markets becoming highly illiquid around month end trading dates. This also allows funds to benefit from equity and bond market volatility as they tend to be buying when markets are falling and selling as they rise," he said. Derivatives should also be ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against the complete pay down of Australia's debt, they opposed the idea of scrapping ...