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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 191 points at 3,968. In economic news, the Housing Industry Association releases its HIA-Commonwealth Bank affordability report for the September quarter today. In equities news, ANZ Banking Group Ltd issues its annual ...

US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
The bail-out legislation has been overwhelmingly approved by the US Senate, but the bigger test will be the congressional vote tomorrow, which isn't expected to get such a smooth ride. This morning Australian time, the Senate voted in favour of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract rose 24 points to 5,006. Today, Housing Industry Association (HIA) new home sales data for June is released along with the National Australia Bank second quarter business confidence survey. ...

Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... get worse, and our anti-inflationary strategies look set to make it worse. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), even despite slowing house prices last year, housing affordability still sunk to yet another record low at the end of 2007. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... the December Share Price Index was up 60 points to 6711. Today, the Australian Industry Group-Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases their Australian Performance of Construction Index (PCI) for September and ANZ Banking Group Ltd publishes its job ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket was trading in positive territory at noon, recovering from yesterday's downward trend and following a mixed session in New York overnight. At 1209 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 29.9 points to 6221.1 and the All ...

Market wrap - midday

The Australian share market continued its poor start to the week, characterised by losses among the big commodities and banking stocks. The performance echoed that in the US, where stocks fell on Friday. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index ...

Economic round-up: Going broke going for broke

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... foothold on the property ladder. It is officially 10.3 per cent harder than a year ago, according to figures out today. The HIA-CBA First Home buyer affordability index has fallen again in the March quarter by 0.6 per cent bringing the affordability ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
... June share price index contract was up two points to 6,049. On the economic front today, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases new home sales data for February and the JPMorgan/Fujitsu Australian Mortgage Industry Report also is unveiled. In ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... release. The index is now 15 plus per cent less than in December 2005 which was when first homes were their most affordable. The HIA has found that mortgage repayments have increased by 6.3 per cent so that the average repayment is now 30.7 per cent ...