All Posts Tagged With: "u.s. bond yields"

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Surge in Chinese Bank Lending in 2009 Leads to Fall in Bank Capital

And while we’re on the subject of China we should relay that Citic Pacific Ltd, which is an arm of China’s largest state-owned company, is set to spend more on magnetite iron ore projects in Australia. Magnetite is a lower grade ore than the hematite ores that BHP and Rio have all but locked up in the Pilbara.

November 26th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
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Finding Assets that Out Run Inflation as Bond Yields Move Up

The week began with your editor wondering how the bond market would choke down another $81 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. On Monday, it swallowed $40 billion in three-year notes with gusto, and even belched in satisfaction. Demand, analysts said, hadn’t been that strong since 1990-when the bond vigilantes used the bond market as a weapon to discipline government spending.

November 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
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New Trend in the Market: Sell Bonds and Buy Commodities

Gross finishes with this advice: “Bond investors should, therefore, confine maturities to the front end of yield curves, where continuing low yields and downside price protection is more probable. Holders of dollars should diversify their own baskets before central banks and sovereign wealth funds ultimately do the same.

June 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
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Lower Bond Yields by Any Means Necessary

The benefits of merely mentioning the strategy started showing up right away. Yields were down and prices were up as traders loaded into U.S. bonds. All aboard the Fed’s Bond Yield Express! Destination Zero! You can see below that the current yield curve is more of an on-ramp. And the only reason it looks moderately curvy is the scale on the y-axis. Read on…

December 17th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
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