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ASFA warns against using super to buy homes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... retirement income, the early withdrawal of superannuation savings to buy a house could lead to the creation of an artificial bubble in the market and have an overall impact on the economy. "The superannuation pool is invested across all asset classes ...

China demand for Australian resources to fall: JP Morgan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... it is now set at 19.5%. In 2005 the rate was less than 8%, with the massive hikes aimed at popping the Chinese property bubble. Inflationary pressure would be reduced by weaker commodity prices caused by a weaker global economy, she wrote. About 22% ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... markets. Nobody could accused it now of artificially boosting stock market prices or cheapening the US dollar or creating a bubble in commodity markets - which, in turn, puts upward pressure on inflation around the globe. When the Fed announced QE2 last ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... alphabet soup of structured products (ABS, CDOs, CLOs, CDO-squareds) that were issued en masse banks during the credit bubble. Those securities were downgraded after investors lost much more money than they would have expected from a A, AAA-rated bond." ...

Bigger picture, nicer picture

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011

Aussie downgrades likely as S&P reviews rating system

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
Ratings agency Standard and Poor's is reviewing its rating methods, a move likely to lead to downgrades not only of the Big Four banks but of Australia's entire banking industry. The ratings agency has been canvassing industry opinion from around the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... 22.34 points (0.78 per cent) at 2,869.88, the highest close since December 2000, when it was plummeting as the dot-com bubble famously burst, plunging the country into recession. Riding news that the Fed would not raise ultra-low interest rates, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... 2008. The Nasdaq closed a few points shy of its 2007 peak. Beyond that peak are levels last seen in 2001 as the dot.com bubble burst. Strong earnings from Ford, Dow member 3M and United Parcel Services (UPS) fuelled market bulls. Ford, the second-largest ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... JANA Investment Advisers, agreed on a positive outlook for US stocks but referred to the Australian housing market as a bubble. Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the troubled North American ...

Spot the bubble before they burst

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Gold could be the next investment bubble to burst, according to a highly regarded financial adviser, but long and painful losses on any bubbles are avoidable with the right frameworks in place. Speaking at the SPAA conference, Tim Farrelly, principal ...