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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
Brexit concerns push hedge funds to A$4tr Global hedge fund capital increased to A$4 trillion in the second quarter of this year, according to Hedge Funds Research. The surge, sparked by Brexit concerns, was the third highest hedge fund FUM tally on ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
Australia housing finance The number of finance home loan approvals increased by 1.5% in the month of February, less than market expectations for a 2.2% lift but marks a strong rebound from the previous month's 4.4% decline. A 3.0% jump in the number ...

T+2 settlement arrives on Monday

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
From Monday both the Australian and New Zealand securities exchanges will roll out T+2 settlement periods, meaning share market trades will settle one business day earlier than the current three day process. The move is expected to align both countries ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... spot index to 97.59 overnight - the highest in two months. It's for all to see in the 5bps rise in the 10-year US Treasury bond yield to 2.09% last night. It's for all to see in the spike in the fed funds futures indicating odds for a December lift-off ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has delayed the interest rate lift off; supporting Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass' view that tightening will be drawn out over many years. Presenting to some 800 advisers at Sydney's Westin Hotel ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... inflation expectations are. At the close of last week's trading the yield differential between the nominal 5-year US Treasury bond and 5-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) is 1.20%. Declining prices would induce consumers to defer spending ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... So is the market-based measure of inflation expectations - the yield differential between the nominal 10-year US Treasury bond and the 10-year US Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). The differential stood at 1.75% last night, down from 1.87% ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Wall Street stocks finished little-changed as a the General Electric asset sale offset worries about spiking US Treasury bond yields. Locally on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment and the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer ...

Retirees urged to add stocks

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... year period and on a per share basis, it equates to a yield of 3.5%. It is attractive in comparison to a 10-year Treasury bond yielding 2%. Milliman Australia principal, Wade Matterson, said the company was doing its own research on the local market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... S&P 500 in the prior two sessions. Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said a drop in US Treasury bond yields also eased worries. "If you look at some of the turmoil you saw in the market during the last few days, a couple of ...