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Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... three major nations. After the initial lift in the cash rate, the Fed will have to stop reinvesting the proceeds of its treasury bonds and then take steps to proactively shrink its balance sheet. "If you don't think these changes will affect asset prices ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... of lending money - as in the case of Switzerland - there's more than plenty. According to Reuters, "The Swiss Federal Treasury said it sold 232.501 million Swiss francs ($242 million) of bonds maturing in July 2025 at a yield of -0.055 percent." Talk ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... the "tape tantrum" and set out to new heights. Or is this time different? The "taper tantrum" of mid-2013 sent yields on 10-year US Treasuries up, US equities lower and the VIX index rising... and then the tantrum tapered. Financial markets learned to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... in IBM's shares. The computing giant reported another poor quarter. Revenues in all its markets fell for a total decline year-on-year of 12 percent to $24.1 billion. Earnings per share were off 3.8 percent to $5.54, still better than what analysts expected. ...

Industry seizes China FTA opportunities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... according to a report in the Australian Financial Review, as much as $400 million. NSW Premier Mike Baird said: "NSW Treasury Corporation is always looking for opportunities to diversify its investor base, and one option on the table is the possibility ...

ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... months. ASX said the investment would be funded from existing cash resources and be broadly EPS neutral in the first full-year.

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Federal Reserve was looking at an early exit from quantitative easing sparked a 100 basis point spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. While there are a number of approaches available on the market to mitigate against interest rate risk, each is offset ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... European equities fell as investors digested gloomy eurozone data showing anaemic economic growth for the first quarter of the year. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gave up 0.55 per cent to close at 6,840.089 points as investors considered a STG3.7 ...

Zenith rates NSW Annuity Bonds 'recommended'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... Bonds - Series 7 'recommended'. The product is designed to provide a regular annuity style income stream over a defined nine year term via a debenture issued by the NSW Treasury Corporation, meaning it is effectively guaranteed by the NSW Government. ...