Daily Archive: July 1, 2009

Jul 01

Is there value in inflation linked bonds?

The RBA provides daily reporting on three Treasury Capital Indexed bonds. They each mature in the month of August in 2010, 2015, and 2020 and are currently yielding 2.40%, 3.11%, and 3.02% respectively as at 30th June 2009. If we compare these Capital Indexed yields to the Treasure Fixed Rate yields for similar maturing securities …

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Jul 01

US House Prices

Source: www.calculatedrisk.com I last published this chart two months ago and the trend has not abated. US House prices continue to decline and are currently around February 2003 levels. Include inflation and the housing prices are even lower. I guess some of the lessons in this include: never take increasing house prices for granted like …

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