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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... prices rose Thursday, buoyed by a wave of market euphoria over a coordinated effort by five central banks to provide US dollars to cash-squeezed European banks. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, climbed 49 US cents ...

Omega bond launch timed for asset allocation shift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... we want to be more diversified than the benchmark and a great way to do that is to buy Australian issuers in either US dollars or Euros and hedge it back to Australian dollars."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... gained strength because of the improved risk appetite in the market," Ms Lien said from New York. "People are selling US dollars and buying high-yielding currencies in the hope that the Federal Reserve will do more on Friday. At 0700 (AEST) on Wednesday ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... bonds with US$1.16 trillion worth of Treasuries as of May, called for international supervision of the issuance of US dollars and a new global reserve currency after the downgrade. "China, the largest creditor of the world's sole superpower, has every ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... executive Paul Xiradis said strong corporate earnings in the US had boosted Australian stocks. Companies that earned in US dollars, such as NewsCorp and Brambles, were not as strong, but still in the black. At 1208 AEST, NewsCorp was up 12 cents at $17.35 ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... deal with inflation in their own economies." In a way, this is everybody's fault. The Fed's for unleashing a flood of US dollars. Investors for taking those dollars and parking them into higher yielding emerging markets. And emerging markets for artificially ...

BetaShares launches currency ETF

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... performance of the US dollar (US$) relative to the Australian dollar (A$). The underlying assets of the fund consist of US dollars held in a bank account with JP Morgan Chase Bank. Drew Corbett, head of investment strategy and distribution at BetaShares ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... the US dollar rebound imply? Santa says the US economy is on track for recovery and therefore investors are buying US dollars to purchase US-denominated assets. Look at Europe, the spread between Irish and German bonds is narrowing. But according to ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... almost S$8 billion ($6.3 billion) between October last year and July. Six were denominated in Singapore dollars, two in US dollars, two in Sterling. Including its maiden US dollar bond issued in September 2005, the fund has 11 outstanding bonds totaling ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... we'll have a full house - with the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank minting unlimited supplies of US dollars, yens and euros. Gold and other hard commodities would stand to benefit from this increased production of money. And of course ...