{"id":11676,"date":"2009-09-03T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2009-09-03T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:36:05","slug":"malaysian-5-year-bond-swaps-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/malaysian-5-year-bond-swaps-negative.html","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian 5-year bond-swaps negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The spread between Malaysia&#8217;s 5-yr IRS and 5-yr government bond yields hit a negative 9.5 bps on Thursday, as hedge funds and other speculators aggressively received 5-year swaps.<\/p>\n<p>The spread was a positive 9.5 bps on Aug 5. The five-year ringgit swaps is quoted at 3.67 percent. Onshore and offshore players have generated huge demand for 5-yr swaps and bonds to avoid shorter-dated debt on a view that the central bank rate would remain on hold for the rest of the year. They are also looking to avoid 10-yr debt on concerns of more supply due to an expected bigger fiscal deficit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/afx\/2009\/09\/03\/afx6844466.html?FORM=ZZNR4\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The spread between Malaysia&#8217;s 5-yr IRS and 5-yr government bond yields hit a negative 9.5 bps on Thursday, as hedge funds and other speculators aggressively received 5-year swaps. The spread was a positive 9.5 bps on Aug 5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4462,11708,870,4477],"class_list":["post-11676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-government-bond","tag-hedge-funds","tag-onshore","tag-speculators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11678,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions\/11678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}