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Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... to raise additional capital and indicated that the magnitude of further losses will depend on the performance of the US housing market. It looks like AIG might be up for more bad news as recent US housing market indicators point to a continued downtrend. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... billion ($A8.9 billion) in new capital boosted hopes the financial sector was purging itself of the hefty losses from the US housing slump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 266.48 points, or 2.39 per cent, to 11,397.56 and the Standard & Poor's ...

Former Invesco duo harvest good returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... underweight listed property trusts, geared infrastructure investment vehicles, utilities, discretionary expenditure and US housing [and] consumer exposures," he said. Karara also announced that its small companies portfolio achieved an excess return ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... following Wall Street, which lost ground due to fears about the US economy following a weaker than expected report on the US housing market. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 157.4 points, or 3.06 per cent to 4985.8 while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... points or 0.52 per cent, to 5,188.4. NEW YORK - Wall Street decclined overnight as a weaker-than-expected report on the US housing market raised fresh fears about an economic recovery and ended a rush into banking stocks. Record losses reported by Ford ...

Inflation Report: Japan's Turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... 6.59 percent. The one-year treasury ARM was unchanged at 7.16%. This is another indication of the dour state of the US housing market. In Europe, the Bank of England (BoE) released the minutes of its July 9 and 10 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... forecast to show a 1.2 percent fall in June and New Home Sales declining by 1.8 percent. Because expectations for the US housing market have been so low over the past few months, any sign of a pickup or a better-than-expected result, could provide support ...

US houses continue to burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight The US housing market remains in a freefall. The US Commerce Department reported that housing starts increased to 1066K in June, a month-on-month rise of 9.1 percent. This was better than market expectations for a 1.8 percent ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... companies to move mortgage guarantees to their balance sheets as assets or liabilities, would hit the two pillars of the US housing market - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - severely, causing a knock-on effect on the capital markets. This is because the ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... June updates for US building permits and housing starts, released on Thursday, should confirm ongoing weakness in the US housing market. Japan The Bank of Japan's (BoJ) Monetary Policy Board meets on Monday to deliberate on the country's interest rate ...

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