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Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... there is a further drop in unemployment, or a rise in cost pressures like yesterday's 10.6 per cent yoy, rise in house prices.

Under-building down under

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
While the sub-prime meltdown has left the US economy bruised with housing oversupplied and house prices soggy, Australian housing is suffering from supply shortages and prices going through the roof. US economic growth has progressively slowed, where ...

Home sweet home

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... US biggest cities fell by 3.9 per cent in the year to July, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index. US house Prices posted the biggest year on year drop in 37 years while new home sales plunged by 8.3 per cent, worse than the market expectation ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... funds used to double digit returns won't like the prognosis either. But if recessions break out everywhere, at least house prices will fall and we won't be talking so much about the so-called housing affordability crisis as we'll be living in our prestige ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... markets, its so far modest effect on consumer spending is set to intensify as household debt exceeds home equity. Rising house prices have sent consumer debt soaring. However, a report by the Federal Reserve Board's Divisions of Research & Statistics ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... "suspension bridge." He said that while the current global financial structure was strong enough to withstand weakening US house prices and a few sub-prime issues, the markets had to worry about "whether we are reaching a broad-based level of financial ...

One in five choose shares: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... upshot of such equity investor shyness was increasing money into property, the report said, despite falling Sydney house prices and slow gains in other areas. The report, written before the market drops of the last few days, stated that while bond yields ...

Economic round-up: Going broke going for broke

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... for sale is inflating prices and expanding the gap between market prices and what first time buyers can pay. With house prices continuing to climb, steady interest rates have done nothing to ease the monthly repayments needed on a typical first-home ...

Accommodation shopping? Try the local mall

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... developers seem to have bigger fish to fry and investors are competing with owner-occupiers for established homes, driving house prices up in areas of limited stock. In April, 33.8 per cent of new mortgages went to investors, beating March's already ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... 40-year lows of 1.36 per cent in the December quarter and rents have been on the rise, although not at the same rate as house prices. But according to Australian Social Service chief, Andrew Johnston, accommodation shortages, especially for low-income ...