Yesterday
US Treasuries slide with worst sell-off since 2019
Volatility continued to lash assets in the US markets with bonds extending a slide that could be the biggest in more than five years.
This Month
The sell-off we had to have is only part-way done
In an environment when the market could drop 5 per cent on any given day and throw off opportunities, investors have to go back to basics.
Bond markets left reeling as epic week scars traders
The wild swings across bond markets this week were reminiscent of the biggest crises in modern history. Battered traders are now moving to more reliable havens.
The bond market teaches Trump the art of the squeal
The US president is not easily humbled, but he’s learnt to respect a bond market that has grown far more powerful and consequential than ever.
A ‘classic emerging market crisis’ as investors flee US assets
The usual flight to safety toward long-term US government bonds occurred at first but has since very much reversed. The reversal shows no signs of slowing.
Buckle up for next 90-days as tariff talks play out
Sentiment turned on a dime on Thursday as investors piled back into equities. We spoke to one of the country’s top wealth investor shops to find out why.
Calm descends on bond markets, but tariff war will push yields higher
Bond yields dropped after Trump stunned the market by pausing most of his reciprocal tariffs, but analysts warn that US Treasuries face higher borrowing costs still.
ASX gains $112b; Why Trump backed down; Did he manipulate market?
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Bond markets smacked Trump’s tariff plan. He had to back down
Markets are recovering, but the scars from Trump’s tariff saga will run deep.
Five circuit breaks that can stop the market turmoil
Trade negotiations, central bank action and government stimulus are among the options being discussed by economists and strategists that would restore calm to financial markets.
Bond rout shakes investors as world’s safe haven loses its appeal
The turmoil in US government bonds overshadowed deep losses on the sharemarket, as traders were left wondering if this was “the end of exorbitant privilege”.
The day a market rout turned into something scarier for investors
What looked like a standard and orderly sell-off – overpriced equity markets reacting to an economic growth shock or the prospect of a US recession – is starting to look leaky.
This will cushion your super balance during the Trump slump
Bonds typically act as a counterbalance to equities, providing ballast during share market corrections. But this time around there’s a wrinkle in the system.
$A tipped to keep tumbling as superpowers ‘collide’
The Australian dollar hit a fresh five-year low below US60¢ and traders ramped up bets the RBA will slash the cash rate next month as fears of a global recession grow.
ASX wipes $32b; Tariffs to hit pharma; $1.3trn trade unwinds
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Why we shouldn’t rule out an economic doomsday
Policymakers should be war gaming the worst scenario because never before has a single signature by a single individual raised the probability of recession so sharply.
Markets have seen through Peter Navarro’s ‘tissue of lies’
The evidence against Donald Trump’s tariff adviser, and his “poorly designed and reckless” tariff hikes, is overwhelming.
‘It’s tell your grandchildren I was there’ day as $1.3trn trade unwinds
We might be able to suck up a cratering sharemarket as part of shake-out of financial excess. But the excesses in the bond market may be even more painful.
Traders eye up to five RBA rate cuts amid market turmoil
The Aussie tumbled below US60¢, its lowest level since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the bond market ramped up expectations of bigger interest rate moves.
MinRes debt anxiety grows as lithium miners walloped by tariff fears
The company’s debt is trading at an increasing discount as investors fret about billions of dollars in loans far higher than its market capitalisation.