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Central Banks must unite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest rates. This improved stock and bond market valuation as the savings found their way into retail spending and home purchases. Profits improved and business investment ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest rates. This improved stock and bond market valuation as the savings found their way into retail spending and home purchases. Profits improved and business investment ...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Volatility ruled financial market activity last week as investors ignored economic data and focused on developments surrounding the US Treasury/Federal Reserve negotiations with Congress over their proposed bail-out package. Equity and bond markets ...

Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... financial stocks lower in today's domestic equity market activity. And like their overseas counterparts, the local bond market should trade higher as investors switch to safe-haven investments.

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... is proposing that the government, through the Australian Office of Financial Management, intervene in the corporate bond market to provide liquidity in the same way the RBA intervenes to support banks. The proposal is similar to how the home mortgage ...

All Eyes on the CPI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... rates sooner rather than later prompted a rally in the US dollar overnight and an accompanying sell-off in the US bond market. The equity market received support from falling commodity prices. Signs that demand is weakening sparked a decline in commodity ...

Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... reduce inflation over time." A veiled warning that the economy sits on a knife edge however is how the board noted "[bond market] pricing suggested that markets saw a reasonable chance of a tightening towards the end of the year". Reinforcing the dichotomy ...

Telstra Super eyes distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... used by these managers to extract the value they want," he said. Distressed debt is a sub-segment of the high-yield bond market and is defined as securities that yield at least 10 percent above the risk-free rate benchmark. According to NYU Stern School ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... rates that should act as an automatic dampener. But if the 2020 Summit idea that the government should set up a cheap bond market program to lower the cost of housing finance in the wholesale market comes to fruition, Winnel's worst nightmare could come ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... churns out over $3.3 trillion a day, more than three times the size of the second most liquid asset class, the US bond market, which trades $900 billion a day. "It's the world's largest liquid asset class yet it's structurally inefficient," said Davey. ...