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Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... Executive Director at the IMF (OUSED) would stop whinging about the Australian dollar. Last month, SBS reported that "The US Treasury has aired a complaint that the Reserve Bank of Australia's discussion of the Australian dollar could be out of line". ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... for deployment in their local economies, foreign central banks and government institutions sold US$57.2 billion of US Treasury debt and other notes in January, according to figures released by the US Treasury this week. That is up from US$48 billion ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... dollar 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 ...

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
... target. 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 ...

Light at the end of the tunnel for EM debt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... January 2015, it took one and a half months before emerging markets debt followed the slide in global yields, led by the US Treasury and the German Bund. But with the yields of American and German treasuries rising sharply in the last few weeks, "emerging ...

The unborn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... minister Michael Noonan. Perhaps. But then again, allow me to present exhibit 1 - Lehman Brothers - the Fed and the US Treasury also thought they were prepared to let it go (let it go) in October 2008 and then the brown stuff hit the whirling stuff. ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... time I recall the Yankees wading in on on the Greek crisis issue. (I remember them meddling in many others though). US Treasury secretary Jacob Lew "...in a phone call on Tuesday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, warned Athens that a failure ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... led to calls for him to tone down his rhetoric to reach an agreement. With the stalemate showing no signs of ending, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Tsipras in a phone call on Tuesday he should make "a serious move to reach a pragmatic compromise ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... 5,465. 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 ...