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AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... leaders starting on June 7 - Athens' troubles dominated the talks. "All parties need to move" in the Greek negotiations, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told reporters after the meeting wrapped up on Friday. HONG KONG - Japan's Nikkei has chalked up an ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... sentiment index plummeted to 88.6 in May from 95.9 in April. Offsetting these data were the pullback in the US dollar and US Treasury yields, Hogan said. Netflix rose 4.5 per cent following reports it is in talks with a Chinese partner backed by Alibaba ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... the S&P 500 in the prior two sessions. Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said a drop in US Treasury bond yields also eased worries. "If you look at some of the turmoil you saw in the market during the last few days, a couple ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... America via the strong US dollar. It's starting to rear its ugly head there now. The differential between the 10-year US Treasury yield and the yield on 10-year Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) - a gauge of inflation expectations -- has ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... price-setting has increased and could adversely affect medium-term price developments." This is the same day that former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2015 that, "Deflation and secular stagnation ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Alibaba added 3.35 percent, Amazon 2.8 percent and Google 2.3 percent. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury rose to 1.85 percent from 1.81 percent Tuesday, while the 30-year jumped to 2.44 percent from 2.40 percent. Bond prices and ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... with Ziff Brothers Investments as senior economist. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. Based in Edinburgh, Faulkner-MacDonagh will report directly to the head of global strategy Andrew Milligan. Wolf ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... into per share earnings of 97 cents, two cents above analyst forecasts. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury rose to 2.28 per cent from 2.23 per cent on Wednesday, while the 30-year advanced to 3.05 per cent from 3.00 per cent. Prices ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening despite the Fed reducing its US Treasury purchases by US$5 billion at each and every Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting starting in January this year. Successive ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... that has [been] a needless drag on our economy." The bill being approved by Congress has been welcomed by investors. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was reported last week saying that if the debt ceiling wasn't raised from 27 February the US was likely ...