Category Archive: Rates/Bonds

SGD Rates and Bonds Weekly

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Economic News Jun Electronics Sector Index 51.2 vs expected 51.0 Jun PMI 51.7 vs expected 51.0 IRS USDSGD at a new 12 month high, breaking 1.28 for a day before trading at its… Continue reading

Temasek and her bonds (updated)

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Temasek Investor Lunch next Monday at the Mandarin Oriental. July 8 (Bloomberg) — Two people familiar with the matter said. • Co. hires DBS and UBS to arrange the meetings • Meetings to… Continue reading

SGD Corps Comments : They mark them up, they mark them down

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When I see the prices now. I know its a retard retail stand up comedy. My fund manager friends say all the prices are way wrong but who cares because they are keeping… Continue reading

It’s a few hours before U.S. employment report … Of Trees payoff & cheap optionality

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There’s a sense of palpitation in the air ahead of every U.S. employment report on the 1st Friday of the calendar month that will then set the tone of all markets across all… Continue reading

A Trade Suggestion : HDB Bonds

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It escaped my notice but I finally read something I wrote and a trade idea struck me. Bond trade ideas do not come to me easily these days because, 1. I am not… Continue reading

Bonds In Conversation : 4th July Was The Start Not The End ..of the war (UPDATED)

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Today is a US holiday. Independence Day was the day the Revolutionary War started and not the day it ended. The war lasted between 1776 till 1783. The big picture is starting to… Continue reading

Bonds In Conversation : Run Lola, Run – Newton’s Law

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Watching the market actions unfold into the half year closing, I remember a movie I watched over a decade ago. The beauty of Run Lola, Run, besides the chick (i like her because… Continue reading

So they say they were wrong … And what do they say now ?

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The market has a short term memory, mine included. Yet when 2 lines are strung together like these on CNBC and WSJ last night in an interview with hedge funder Jeff Gundlach, your… Continue reading

SGD Rates and Bonds Weekly

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Economic News May CPI +1.6% YoY vs expected +1.7% May CPI +0.4% MoM vs expected +0.3% IRS Chaos with Singapore melting down along with the rest of the world in a unprecedented move… Continue reading

Who Cares If Singapore Govis Are AAA

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MAS announced details of new benchmark 10Y auction. Issue size:  SGD1.8bn MAS intended Tender :  SGD 300mio ISIN Code : SG3260987684 Auction Date: 26 Jun 2013 Settlement Date: 1 July 2013 Maturity Date… Continue reading