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Trump 'playing with fire' over Fed indictment threat

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... Hassett, as the next Fed chair will do little to reassure markets about the Fed's independence." The US 10-year Treasury yield rose by one point to 4.19% and the US 2-year Treasury yield was steady near 3.54% after the threat of indictment was announced. ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

High rates impacting REITs: Quay

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... and 17% respectively. Over the same period, bonds also started selling off, Blaess said. In the US, the 10-year treasury yield, the benchmark risk-free rate rose from 1.4% to the current rate of 4.0%, peaking as high as 4.3% along the way. "The impact ...

VanEck launches US bond ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
VanEck will introduce its 33rd ETF later this week - the first of its kind to be listed on the ASX, the manager says. The VanEck 1-3 Month US Treasury Bond ETF (TBIL) will list on the ASX on Thursday morning. According to VanEck, TBIL is the first short-term ...

Federal Reserve delivers 0.75bp rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
The US Federal Reserve raised its policy interest rate by 0.75 basis points to 2.5% and indicated further increases will likely be appropriate. Explaining the decision, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said: "From the standpoint of our congressional ...

Fed buys up BlackRock ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
BlackRock has emerged as the biggest winner of the US Federal Reserve's corporate bond buying program, with its ETFs making up around half of the central bank's purchases. The Fed bought US$1.58 billion in investment grade and high-yield ETFs in May ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
News that a highly anticipated antiviral drug hoped to treat COVID-19 had flopped in human trials saw markets fall overnight. Originally reported by the Financial Times, the publisher said Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir did not reduce the ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
The United States will be in recession a year or so from now. There I called it! But at the same time, I'm hoping that I'm wrong. US recession fears - resulting from the negative spread between the yield on 10-year and two-year US Treasuries ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... Dimon's comments that he saw a flat fourth-quarter trading environment. "The first inversion of any portion of the Treasury yield curve in more than a decade awoke the specter of a recession," he said. Sure, they all add up. But if (and whenever) ...

Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... last night by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) is reason to be concerned: "The ability of the Treasury yield curve to predict future recessions has recently received a great deal of public attention. An inversion of the yield curve - ...
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