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Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Market Wrap - morning

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... $500 million of April 2020 bonds. In companies news, JP Morgan and Fujitsu Australia are due to release the Australian Mortgage Industry Report. And Future Fund chairman David Murray is listed to speak at a business lunch in Melbourne. Also, ANZ Banking ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... - or both -- as the only options. The Fed is reportedly planning more quant easing - buying government bonds to bring mortgage rates down even lower. And according to Bloomberg, "the Obama administration will offer $1 billion in zero-interest loans to ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds from its profitable portfolio of mortgage-backed securities into US Treasury bonds to keep the "fun" going. "To help support the economic recovery in a context of ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... nudge down interest rates further along the yield curve by reinvesting the proceeds (principal and interest) from its mortgage-backed securities portfolio. Expectations alone have brought yields on 2-year, 5-year and 10-year bonds lower last night. Not ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... payments. According to the American Bankers Association this rate has not been below 4.0 per cent since 2002; Finally, the Mortgage Bankers Association announced that home loan applications jumped by 7.0 per cent last week. See the financial press can ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... jump in the previous month. Admittedly, the expiry of the homebuyers tax credit in April had a hand in this. But falling mortgage rates should aid in sustaining demand in the coming months. Yes, everything was going well until... The Financial Times ...

Budget underwhelms planning groups

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... numbers there," he said. "High income earners are not going to be very fussed by it and lower income earners may have a mortgage and would have their money in an offset account anyway." Regarding superannuation, the government announced it would increase ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... ballooned to US$1.4 trillion. It could also be reflective of the Fed's completion of its purchase of $US1.25 trillion mortgage-backed securities. The worry is that the US government may need to offer higher yields to continue attracting investors to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... the anniversary of the stock market's 12-year low set on March 9, 2009, amid the financial crisis stemming from a home mortgage meltdown. Since then, the blue-chip Dow index has rallied more than 60 per cent. With little in the way of economic reports ...