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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... to end at 20,563.15 - the index is now enjoying its best rally since February 1988 at the height of Japan's stock market bubble. Shanghai, which slumped 6.50 per cent on Thursday, ended 0.18 per cent, or 8.53 points, lower at 4,611.74 after a volatile ...

ASIC and RBA issue property bubble warning

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... is at historic highs," he told the Australian Financial Review. "History shows that people don't know when they are in a bubble until it's over." Medcraft said the Reserve Bank's decision to drop interest rates to a record low 2% was encouraging more ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... are to the downside, when bad debts are at all-time lows, and certain metropolitan property markets seem to be entering bubble territory." He said that credit growth, a major driver of revenue for any bank, has been fuelled by increasing levels of household ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... has arguably never been so much discussion around property with some experts saying Australia is going through a housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates and SMSFs' ability to borrow. Financial Standard analyses investors' current love affair with ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... president of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he does not expect a rate increase until 2016. "This is the biggest bubble the Fed has ever grown and the Fed won't raise rates because they can't... They won't hike in June or in September and we ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... the market. China is slowing down. What we have there is huge monetary stimulus which is causing this stock market semi-bubble," he said. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares have retreated, as offshore weakness spread to the NZX. The NZX 50 Index fell 22.522 ...

Negative Chinese news clouding opportunity: Wells Capital

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... continued. "There's been so much scepticism that international investors remain underweight. People are becoming worried about a bubble but there's been a 23% move in stocks without any real participation. Bubbles need to have participation." Flows into ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... doing anything but good? Remember all that rage not even too weeks ago - the one about Chinese investors moving the China bubble to Hong Kong? In an article about that published on 9 April, the Epoch Times taglined its article with, "The average Chinese ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Head of the world's largest fund manager has warned shareholders about an ever-expanding bubble in yield-paying assets, inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive ...