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Do rising yields spell the death knell of equities?
SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Investors shouldn't worry that a faster pace of rate hikes by the US Fed will drive up yields which could then negatively impact stock markets, says Bank of Singapore.
February 22, 2018
Global Markets
Increased volatility and higher yields part of package that comes with market normalcy: DBS
SINGAPORE (Feb 7): Don't panic, markets are simply showing signs of normalcy with more volatility and higher yields despite ongoing bouts of risk aversion, says DBS.
February 07, 2018
In print this week
Investors face higher market risks in 2018
SINGAPORE (Feb 2): The Federal Open Market Committee, meeting for the last time under outgoing chair Janet Yellen, left the federal funds rate unchanged on Jan 31 while paving the way for rate hikes under Yellen’s successor Jerome Powell.
February 02, 2018
Global Economy
Fed starts to wonder if cornerstone inflation model still works
WASHINGTON (Aug 17): Federal Reserve officials are looking under the hood of their most basic inflation models and starting to ask if something is wrong.
August 17, 2017
In print this week
Will we be crushed by reverse QE?
SINGAPORE (Aug 11): Forget the US Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. There is far more to be feared from the imminent reversal of quantitative easing (QE) by both the Fed and the European Central Bank (ECB).
August 11, 2017
Markets start to ponder the US$13 trillion gorilla in the room
(April 19): After heading into the uncharted territory of quantitative easing, the world’s central banks are starting to plan their course through the uncharted waters of quantitative tightening.
April 19, 2017
Currencies
Asia's carry-trade darling haunted by politics as Fed hikes loom
KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): Indonesia’s rupiah could reverse gains that made it emerging Asia’s top performer in 2016 as some of the currency’s key supports risk turning into Achilles heels.
March 30, 2017
DBS looks into 2017
Kiss goodbye to high REIT yields
SINGAPORE (Dec 20): DBS Group Research has an “underweight” rating on the Singapore REIT sector as it anticipates four interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve in 2017 alone.
December 20, 2016
Here’s the most underpriced event of the market this year and how to prepare for it
SINGAPORE (Aug 13): It’s true they say that stock investors have a short-term memory. While Brexit may have come as a rude shock to them, it turns out they aren’t pricing in the possibility of Donald Trump as the new US President either.
August 13, 2016
Fed's Mester says gradual rate hikes still appropriate after jobs report
(June 4): The latest disappointing US jobs number has not changed the overall economic picture and gradual rate hikes remain appropriate, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said on Saturday.
June 05, 2016