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Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... attached to gold, but it also does not contain the prospect of a fall in capital value - not for now at least. US bond yields are expected to rise soon, starting when the Fed begins to unwind its quantitative easing. At its January Federal Open Markets ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... mid-year. But if investors really believe that the US would double dip at worst and produce only slow growth at best, US bond yields would be coming back down. Instead, they are now at pre-Lehman Bros. Levels. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose by ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... aided by low US interest rates - both short and long - ignited a housing and credit bubble. Even better, long-term US bond yields remained at around four per cent despite the US Federal Reserve's aggressive lifting the fed funds rate from a low of 1.0 ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... rates have only ever so slightly risen from their cycle lows - 18 basis points. This compares with a 176 jump in US bond yields and 167 on gilts. The eye of the global financial crisis may be centred in America and Britain one of the countries hit most ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... showing signs of improvement. Bear case: 12 minus 5 equals 7 districts noting no improvement or deterioration. US bond yields. Bulls: 10-year US Treasuries have fallen below 4 per cent last night and rising yields are indicative of the financial system ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... late December 2008. Wall Street rallied sharply between 9 March and the first week of May. At the time 10-year US bond yields went from 2.9 per cent to 3.2 per cent. The rising trend in US long bonds could be explained in a number of different ways ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after a Wall Street ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... dollar climbed steadily for a ninth consecutive day to reach an 18-year record of US0.8789 overnight. Falls in US bond yields and equities in after-hours trading were a big contributor, triggered by Bear Stearns delivering very bad news to some of their ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
... Britain's top index of 100 leading shares rose more than one per cent, as UK equities benefited from a retreat in US bond yields and upbeat oils. The FTSE closed 90.3 points or 1.4 per cent higher at 6,649.9, with oil stocks responsible for nearly a ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
... equity and bond markets are reading from different pages but the result is the same - they both went down overnight. US bond yields rose last night reacting to reports suggesting rising inflationary pressure and therefore, more Fed interest rate hikes. ...