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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... 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. The liabilities held by China have reduced following China's decision to sell down its holdings ...

More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... political ramifications of holding a significant amount of its nearly $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in US government bonds. To mitigate this, he said, more of China's claims on the US should be denominated in RMB, and "one way for China to ...

High rates saving Australia's economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... enough to stave off recession if the economy jumps off the Fiscal Cliff in January. Tripling your holdings of US government bonds since the GFC to nearly $3 trillion has a way of limiting your options. High US debt also means they can't use fiscal policy ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... moving in reverse - instead shot up to a positive correlation of 0.5 as everything dived in price except for US Government bonds. Robinson said that meant using average correlations over time was not a good idea. "When we build a portfolio we need to ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... other "duh"! Oh and about that warning over giving America a D - investors are so scared they're rushing into US government bonds.

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... managers assessing their exposure in the wake of the disaster. Japan is the second largest foreign holder of US Government bonds after China, holding $882.3 billion in treasuries as at the end of December 2010. The government will be under pressure to ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... already weak labor market." The bond markets like this... very much. Yields on US Treasuries dropped. Yields on US government bonds with 5, 10 and 30-year maturities are back down to their levels at the height of the GFC. The yield on two-year Treasuries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... between North and South Korea sent investors fleeing from the stock market into safe-haven investments such as US government bonds. At one point, all 30 of the Dow's stocks were down, with shares in consumer and financial firms hit hardest. But a string ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... months since he was at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world. Greenie observed that yields on US government bonds have been rising in recent days which he attributes to investors' trepidation over "this huge overhang of federal debt ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... paper and ink, America will have the money. Someone, somewhere, somehow would continue to purchase and hold US government bonds in their portfolio. So is it really this fear of the US' rising national debt that's spooking the bond market or the realisation ...
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