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Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... above the odds to get anyone's attention. If Australian banks can't keep attracting new deposit funds it will hit local mortgage rates too. If this comes into play then last weekend's vague announcement by the NSW O'Farrell government about Waratah infrastructure ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... the targeted yields." Option 4. "...use its existing authority to operate in the markets for agency debt (for example, mortgage-backed securities issued by Ginnie Mae, the Government National Mortgage Association)." Option 5. "...influence directly the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... an eye-popping 20.3 per cent after it was hit with a $10.5 billion lawsuit from insurer AIG over its sales of faulty mortgage-backed securities prior to 2008. Aluminum giant Alcoa dropped 11.4 per cent, while Caterpillar fell 9.2 per cent. LONDON - Global ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... accounting chicanery and management lies. Bear Stearns wasn't downgraded until the day it went under. Then there was the mortgage-backed securities debacle, when agencies bestowed AAA ratings on bonds backed subprime mortgages, as well as the alphabet ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... rollover of Greek debt based on the Paris model -- private creditors would voluntarily rollover over 70% of maturing Greek bonds into new 30-year maturities - is tantamount to default. "It is our view, that the options described in the proposal would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Nasdaq composite lost 1.30, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,760.22. Bank of America, the country's biggest bank and one of largest mortgage underwriters, reports earnings Friday morning. Stock indices were lower for most of the day after claims for unemployment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... million of July 2022 bonds. In equities, energy distributor SP AusNet releases half year results. Charter Hall Group, Mortgage Choice Ltd, Computershare Ltd, and Breville Group Ltd are amongst companies holding annual general meetings. On Tuesday, the ...

CBA plans retail bond offering

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... the RBA's 25 basis point cash rate increase. The 45 basis point rise pushed its benchmark Complete Home Loan Variable Mortgage Rate up to 7.81 per cent.

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... this all we're getting? A number followed by a B instead of T? If the Fed's US$1.75 trillion worth of Treasury and mortgage bonds purchases -- over six to nine months - in March 2009 did not succeed in lowering unemployment and preventing disinflation ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... that PIMCO, BlackRock and the NY Federal Reserve Bank were seeking to force the BoA to repurchase US$47 billion in mortgage bonds packaged by its Countrywide Financial Corp unit. There was bad news on energy stocks. The energy sector fell the most overnight ...