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Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... desperately to achieve since Bush junior was still president. Sure losses are being made in the bond market - 10-year US Treasury yields closed at 2.35% last week (the highest in 12 months) from 1.86% pre-Trump -- as inflation expectations climb but ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... major indices flipped positive in early trading Wednesday after Trump's conciliatory acceptance speech. Meanwhile, US Treasury yields were higher with a steeper curve, and the dollar was little changed versus most of its currency rivals. Not bigger than ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... infrastructure investment by about 11%, or A$477 billion a year. Chinese own only 4% of US govt debt Chinese holdings of US Treasury bonds has fallen A$1.7 trillion or about 30% of the A$5.3 trillion in US government bonds owned by foreign countries. ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... of Fed rate hike expectations - underscored by the renewed strength in the US dollar and the rise in the two-year US Treasury note yield. Fed-funds futures now indicates a 24% likelihood of a rate increase by December from 19% prior to the release of ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... negative interest rates. Tis the reason for China starting to guide the yuan lower (again). Tis the reason behind the US Treasury complaining about the "the [Australian] authorities' public statements on the desired direction of the exchange rate" back ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... so for the Reserve Bank of Australia. Cast your minds a month and a bit back. On 22 March, 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". "The ...

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 ...