government bonds

A prospective credit crunch now makes a US recession more likely than not - and that leaves short-dated government bonds attractive.

As central banks close in on their respective terminal rates, bringing the current tightening cycle to an end this year, we look at the trading implications for 2023...

On 30 November, Fed Chair Powell delivered a speech entitled, Inflation and the Labor Market, at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. Markets surged...

After posting very large deficits during the pandemic, Victoria's budget has turned around and continues to rapidly improve, with the state government reducing its...

When markets are heady, it’s hard not to check your portfolio regularly. Each login and click of the ‘portfolio’ tab on your platform offer the promise of splashes of...

The RBA surprised markets by hiking 0.25% in October. The Bank remains hawkish. More rate hikes are set to follow over the rest of 2022. But the RBA’s move to slower...

There is a saying in markets: Don’t fight the Fed. It is a good adage. But sometimes the market gets the Fed's message wrong. The reaction to the Fed’s latest 0.75%...

The quarterly banking statistics from APRA make for interesting reading, and are very easy to misunderstand. Superficially, it appears as if the Aussie banking...

Government bonds were traditionally favoured for their non-correlation to equity markets. But even before COVID arrived on our doorstep more than two years ago, the...

While the sell-off in growth stocks and tech stocks has garnered most of the headlines this year, there’s been a quieter sell-off happening in debt markets....