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House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... during the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the jury's still out of the US housing market at this point in time. If you want to something bullish to tide you over today, look at the American companies reporting ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... 456,000. Labour market outlook is still uncertain. But it sure is not worsening from its 2010 trend. No good news in US housing too. Existing home sales fell by 5.1 per cent to an annualised 5.4 million units - the third decline in the last five months. ...

Half-filled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... share. Scripts closed 7.4 higher from their opening. There were also things to worry about in terms of economic data. US housing starts added to the 15 per cent drop posted in May with another 5 per cent decline in June - bigger than expectations for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... points. LONDON - European stock markets suffered a fourth day of losses Tuesday after news of a sharp plunge in the US housing sector and a profit slide at investment giant Goldman Sachs hit confidence. Share prices began the day in positive territory ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... markets hit their GFC lows? I'll bet my right eyeballs that most "experts" are now tinkering with their forecasts for the US housing market, proclaiming that the caffeine hit from the homebuyers' tax credit is now no more. The problem it seems is that ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... second estimate, revised lower from the 3.2 per cent in the initial estimate. This may be old news, but bad news on the US housing sector for the month of May appear to confirm early suspicions that America's economy would stall once the stimulus measures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... and property stocks responded to a tightening of their wholesale funding costs and continuing negative news from the US housing market. Resource stocks gained ground on an early surge, with the market assuming a change of prime ministership may be bring ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... bigger-than-expected 0.8 per cent in April, taking the year-on-year expansion up by 9.5 per cent - the largest on record. The bad: US housing starts fell by 10 per cent to an annual rate of 593,000 in May -- the lowest level since December. Building ...

US Commission subpoenas Goldman Sachs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the US housing market was beginning to falter. According to a press statement, Goldman Sachs was alleged to have structured and marketed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... Kong shares closed 1.62 per cent higher on Thursday as dealers followed a strong lead from Wall Street after upbeat US housing data. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 314.91 points to end at 19,786.71. Turnover was $HK51.59 billion. But Chinese shares ...