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Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... all fears - well, nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared an escalation of tensions with North Korea - after its testing ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... the August payrolls. With US inflation expectations again rising - the yield differential between the nominal 10 year Treasuries and TIPS has risen to 1.78% from this year's low of 1.65% -- it's all systems go for another rate hike -- one that would ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... index - the "fear gauge" - jumped by 44.4% overnight; the S&P 500 index dropped by 1.5%; and the yield on US 10-year Treasuries fell by five basis points. But we've seen this game of chickens and one upmanship before - only four months ago (April) - ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... US$0.7733 recorded in late March. The rationales were rational enough: Australian bond's shrinking yield premium over US Treasuries - from a peak of 42 basis points to a low of 16bps in late May; commodity prices were falling - the Bloomberg commodity ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... This is the same message by inflation expectations measured using the yield differential between the nominal 10-year Treasuries and the Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) of the same maturity. The yield differential has fallen to 1.75% at ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is nigh. But while yields on 10-year bonds have risen sharply - US Treasuries were up 23 basis points to 2.37% overnight from 2.14% at the close of the week ended 23 June (before hawkish comments); Eurozone ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... we certainly want to avoid that". Inflation expectations - as measured by the 10-year yield differential between US Treasuries and TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) have clearly trended lower. The differential stood at 1.7% overnight, down ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... has never been this fearless in more than 23 years (January 1994 when the index read 9.94) - the yield on 10-year US Treasuries were up a mere 2 bps to 2.26% and the US dollar index down a tad (0.2%) to 97.11. All these despite the increasing implementation ...

Three steps and yields stumble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... 10-year US bond yields suggests that this adage may have jumped over into the bond market. The yield on 10-year US Treasuries closed at 2.33% last week - a 30 basis point stumble from this year's high of 2.63% recorded on 13 March (a day before the Fed's ...

Coolabah Capital hires former Energy Super chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... secured strong support on the back of our performance from sophisticated financial advisers, family offices, corporate treasuries and super funds, which account for about 80% our FUM," Coolabah co-chief investment officer and co-founder Darren Harvey ...