OPINION: Why ‘goose eggs’ are a big problem for Australia’s big four banks
– the market for US government debt – which has been far more volatile and illiquid than usual despite the market’s reputation as the global haven for investors in uncertain or “risk-off” times.
Since March this year, when the Fed suddenly started hiking US interest rates aggressively in response to 40-year highs in US inflation, each release of an inflation number and each meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee has generated volatility and impacted liquidity in the government and corporate bond markets.
by companies and households also increases, which is another reason for bond investors to be more nervous and for them to demand greater yield compensation for the perceived increase in risk while shortening the periods in which they are exposed to risk by lending for shorter terms. The banks have until mid-2024 to repay the RBA, with a major repayment window in September next year.`The bank’s raising had been well received in Asia but Target’s shock announcement, which it attributed to the economic environment and inflated transportation costs, drove US debt investors to the sidelines.
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