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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Financial Stability Department Luci Ellis is to address the Australian Financial Review Residential Property Conference. The Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases its March quarter Affordability Reports. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is to release data on new motor vehicles sales in January. The Housing Industry Association issues its Affordability Report for the December quarter. In company news, first half results are due ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Exploration Ltd, Atlantic Gold NL and Cloncurry Metals Ltd hold annual general meetings. Day 2 of the 3rd Annual Housing Affordability Congress will convene in Brisbane. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed lower despite better than expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... price index contract was down 33 points at 4,812 points on a volume of 2,939 contracts. In economic news on Thursday, the Housing Industry Association publishes its affordability report for the September quarter. Also, the Australian Office of Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... releases average weekly earnings data for the May quarter, and the Housing Industry Association issues its housing affordability report for the June quarter. The Melbourne Institute will publish its survey of consumer inflationary expectations for August ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... months to come. Why? Because falling house prices, taken with falling mortgage rates, have already increased housing affordability. Sure concern remains about the US jobs market which could make the turnaround in housing a slow process. But even this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 42 points lower at 3,737. In economic news on Monday, the Housing Industry Association releases its affordability report for the March quarter. In companies news, GrainCorp Ltd releases ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... to be unclogging, equity markets are cheering. Wall Street staged another rally last night on better-than-expected US housing data and a rise in China's purchasing managers index above 50 - indicating that manufacturing there is once again expanding. ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... The deterioration in the US labour market and tighter lending standards not surprisingly are continuing to pressure the housing sector. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that mortgage delinquencies for all loans rose to 7.9 per cent in ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... zero? More. Homeowners who still could afford to service their mortgages would be tempted to default, compounding the housing problem even more. Why? Because the government is rescuing only those in mortgage stress. Defaulting on their loans would put ...