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Strong US recovery to send bond yields through the roof

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... crisis. "10% yields are not outside the realm of possibility. But the good news is that global investors, banks and central banks would be attracted like bees to a honey pot to US 10-year Treasuries yielding 8-10%. As buyers enter the market the yields ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... skidding more than three per cent as the yen rose against the US dollar before policy meetings of the US and European central banks. Tokyo's Nikkei on Monday dived 3.32 per cent, extending an almost three per cent slump on Friday. The index shed 468.85 ...

Gold headed to $3k an ounce says ETF pioneer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... there is governments have spent too much in terms of their budget deficits; they've certainly spent too much by the central banks buying bonds and other financial assets via printing of money." Tuckwell, who was reportedly worth $775 million in 2012 ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... equal tightening. Still good news. But wait there's more. If the Fed eventually decides to taper, don't expect other central banks to follow suit. Not the Bank of Japan - it's only just begun -- and certainly not the European Central Bank and the Bank ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on most European markets after the eurozone and British central banks signalled that stimulus measures would continue for some time and ahead of official US employment figures for June. At 0807 ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... 24 hours (except in Australia which we'll come to later), financial markets continued to bask in the afterglow of central banks' reassurances. More so after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the European Central Bank (ECB) replayed those commitments...just ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global markets since the onset of the financial crisis but Humphreys, an ...

CIO confidence slumps to nine-month low

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... that the markets are now 'more fully priced'." Bond said CIOs' greatest concern is how the Reserve Bank and other central banks respond to difficult policy conditions. Eight out of 10 CIOs expect the official cash rate to be cut in the next 12 months ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... to open higher after Wall Street's rocky start ended with a more-than-one-per-cent gain, shrugging off fears that central banks will soon end their stimulus measures. At 0805 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 58 points ...

Australian shares open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... downhill run, opening more than half a per cent lower following falls on international bourses and worries about central banks' stimulus plans. Losses on Thursday would mean a 13th day of falls in 17 trading sessions and the ASX facing a fifth consecutive ...