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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 - ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... job losses not only in the US economy but elsewhere in many parts of the globe, tighter lending standards, falling house prices, etc. But in the end, President Obama's warning about taking away the crutches too early provides for optimism that. "Yes! ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... for the past three months. There's also testosterone pumping across the Atlantic. Halifax reported that UK average house prices rose by 0.8 per cent to 160,793 in August - the second consecutive month of gains. And like Semenya, markets find that the ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... the 1.3 per cent increase in May. Shares bobbed back up on data showing that consumers may be starting to spend and house prices may have bottomed. US personal spending rose by 0.4 per cent in June against expectations fro a 0.3 per cent rise and a 0.2 ...