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All Eyes on the CPI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported that homes prices fell by 0.3 percent in May. House prices fell by 4.8 percent in the 12 months to May and are down by 4.9 percent from the April 2007 peak. In Europe, Italian consumer ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... partly recover from May's 1.6 percent fall. US: In the US, the housing market again takes centre stage this week. US house prices are expected to show a continued decline. The US House Price Index, out on Wednesday, is forecast to fall by 0.6 percent ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... nervousness that things could get much worse as the possibility of more banks and financial institutions collapsing, and US house prices continuing to dive as mortgage financing dries up at the same time as foreclosed homes are being liquidated. The ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... an eventual easing in the coming months. The state of the UK economy has been worsening with industrial output and house prices declining, and the unemployment rate rising. In the 12 months to May, industrial production fell by 1.6 percent - the sharpest ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... and yet to find a bottom. Further declines in sales are likely in the coming months given the backdrop of falling house prices, tighter lending criteria, more expensive credit and lately, a weakening US labour market. Any speculation that the Fed is ...

Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... room for the resources investment boom without leading to inflationary spikes requires household demand, especially house prices themselves, to stay subdued or even fall. But killing any hopes this is likely to happen, housing industry forecasters this ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
It happens to house prices, shares prices, currency markets, in wage negotiations and now it's happening to oil prices. The speculators have moved in and pushed prices way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment ...

Value of investment housing loans apps up 1.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Surging rental demand combined with damp house prices might finally be attracting more cashed-up investor capital into the housing market. According to the April 2008 Housing Finance figures just released by the ABS, while the value of owner occupied ...

House prices volatile but chance of big fall lesson

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Volatility is now beginning to show in house prices in Sydney and Melbourne but the chance of significant price falls is diminishing, according to RP Data/Rismark International. Recent fluctuations in the capital growth rates, where growth rates move ...

House prices 30 pct overvalued

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... conditions could trigger a correction. The counter view however is that lack of supply adds a new dynamic that has shifted house prices into an upward spiral, said Dr Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors. ...