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Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... measures of how well Australia is doing tend to be economic, objective indicators such as Gross Domestic Product, house prices and so on." But we focus on these hard measures because we can and so Australian Unity and the report's author, Bob Cummins ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... Monitors (APM) real estate data group to take place over the next four years, echoes the 50 per cent increase in house prices over the next five years by forecaster BIS Shrapnel. Coming on a day when our Reserve Bank Governor told a parliamentary inquiry ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
After months of share market swings, interest rate rises and petrol price jumps, news that house prices might climb 40 per cent over the next five years didn't quite get the reception you would have expected. Instead it just showed how bad the outlook ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... announcements by the Federal Reserve (the Fed) - amid rising producer prices, falling consumer confidence and sharply lower house prices - that's got economists speculating over the US heading for 1970s-style stagflation. Strong commodities and food ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures were likely to rise and that further falls in house prices could be expected, saying the "situation calls for a vigorous response". The Dow Jones industrial average was down 181.06 ...

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... contributed to the slowdown in spending, as did the declines in household wealth associated with the weakness in house prices and equity prices. At least the recently enacted fiscal stimulus package should provide some support for household spending ...

Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... anti-inflationary strategies look set to make it worse. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), even despite slowing house prices last year, housing affordability still sunk to yet another record low at the end of 2007. But HIA chief economist ...

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... save towards a house?" Thomas conceded such a scheme could save people money, though, even if supply dwindled and house prices rose.

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... two years of steadily plunging construction. Tracking the market, Moody's economist Mark Zandi expected the fall in house prices to accelerate from 5 per cent this year to 10 per cent in 2008. If policy makers didn't react to stem the tide of foreclosures ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... thing prompting another cut. However, the downward US housing spiral is getting pretty spectacular, with absolute house prices, the countrywide average, falling for the first time since the great depression of the 1930s. In its first credit crunch post-mortem ...