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Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... fiscal spending programme by the government. So why the repressed rally atmosphere in the financial markets? Could be the US debt ceiling. Could be ballooning balances at central banks. Could be fear that the Europe could come back to haunt. Could be... ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Going for the ceiling. Sorry folks, this time it's not about the US debt ceiling. It's about Wall Street making another run for the all-time high it reached back before the GFC stood for the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis. ...

Global bond melt-down on cards: Harris Fraser

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... holding some time in 2013 to avoid recording losses - considerably earlier than the market anticipated. "As big holders of US debt, the large institutions are going to get hit by this," said Geary who has ditched his allocation to treasuries and begun ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... worry the pants off investors from New York to Rio and old London town. Yes, we've got a problem coming Houston. It's the US debt ceiling. As President Obama warned last night, "markets could go haywire" if the US$16,400,000,000,000 is not lifted. You ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... industrial output while waiting for 2012 earnings reports from US companies and comments by President Barack Obama on the US debt ceiling. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies slid 0.22 per cent to close at 6,107.86 points on Monday. Frankfurt's ...

High rates saving Australia's economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... Tripling your holdings of US government bonds since the GFC to nearly $3 trillion has a way of limiting your options. High US debt also means they can't use fiscal policy either as their national credit card is already exhausted to the point where the ...

Double-digit Asian equity returns in 2013: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... policy and an uptick in industrial production. Uncertainty surrounding the Chinese economy, the eurozone crisis and the US debt mountain has seen investors shy away from all risk assets but particularly in Asian markets. Swan says that this is creating ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... America's "AAA" rating only just over a year ago (5 August 2011) -- that they demanded lower yields in return for holding US debt. US 10-year bond yields dropped from 2.56% on the day of the announcement to 1.88% by the end of 2011 and 1.70% last night. ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... August 2011. And if you still remember, back then it was mainly due to the 'deal or no deal' speculation over raising the US debt ceiling and culminated in the USA losing its AAA. Then as in now, US eco and survey stats were beginning to disappoint ...

The revival of stock picking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... earnings and cash flows and valuations. Everyone was primarily concerned with big macro factors like the Eurozone crisis, the US debt ceiling and whether China was going to have a hard or soft landing," said Dan Higgins, chief investment officer at Fauchier. ...