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Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're going. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices fell by ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... is no property market bubble. Speaking at the 2010 Fidelity Investment Forum, Costa argued that Australia's lofty house prices to income ratio, used by many commentators to predict a major plunge in property prices, has been overstated. "The data that ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... Australia is experiencing at present time - the drought has broken, commodity prices are high, China's still buying, house prices continue to rise, employers are hiring - that Australians are becoming more confident in taking on debt? Ahhh, debt - that ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... management at the Deutsche Asset Management conference this morning in Sydney. "The long-term trajectory I think for house prices in Australia is one of very little nominal house price growth," said Boyton. "So the price you see doesn't move all that ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... the quarter adding 0.59 per cent to growth. This may have been affected by the first homebuyers tax credit but low house prices and lower mortgage rates and increasing income (see above) should prevent an outsized slump going forward. Non-residential ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... estimated to be cleared in 7.6 months at the current sales rates as against 9.6 months in the previous month - should see house prices rise, or at least stabilise, going forward. This would further improve the financial health of banks and financial ...

Securitor tags AFG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... mortgage aggregation services to Magnitude and Securitor advisers. "Advisers should be identifying that, with increasing house prices and interest rates, clients who are at an earlier stage in their life cycle, can benefit from the value of advice on ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... which fell to 5.5 per cent in December and the boost to retail spending and housing that this underpinned. Australian house prices are rising sharply that there are now concerns of a developing bubble. The RBA knows this, " Public infrastructure spending ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... transition phase at the moment." Positive economic data released on Monday, showing a higher than expected rise in house prices and revisions to the federal government's economic outlook, already had been factored into the market, Mr Taylor said. "There's ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... American consumer confidence fell in September when markets were expecting a rise. The other side of the coin showed US house prices rose in July by more than three times expectations. Same old, same old. What is fresh - and went largely unnoticed - ...