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Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... the sharp depreciation of the Australian dollar shielded us from the Asian financial crisis, the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the GFC. The same way as the Australian dollar's recent appreciation is now saving the Australian economy from growing ...

China not heading for a property bust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Talks of a property bubble in China are overstated as the Chinese government has introduced new home ownership and lending rules to cool the market, said an investment expert. "I don't think we have a bubble yet," said Samantha Ho, investment director ...

Asia to reap $75bn windfall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... valuations and my only fear is that as valuations become expensive, our fund will move more defensively when in fact an Asian bubble could occur. "However, this will be a good position to be in, as our investors would have already had exceptional ret ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... two things. Either the sky is about to fall over our collective heads again. Or we are now in the midst of a bond market bubble. Strong and valid rationales could be put forth to support one against the other. If you believe that we are going back to ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... price to income ratio follows." "I think we get the adjustment in Australia by nominal house prices going sideways, and the bubble deflates in a much more benign way than it has in other economies." He explained that those who keep comparing the property ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... annualised just after the 2001 US recession. New home sales reached levels of more than 1,200,000 units during the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the jury's still out of the US housing market at this point ...

Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... and investors here have followed." Mr Potter said Australian banks faced their own challenges, with fears of a housing bubble in Australia and heavy exposure to the mortgage sector. The big four banks were in the red all morning, with NAB down 40 cents ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... micro-environment in 2008 and 2009." Wang welcomed the government's recent policies designed to prevent a local property bubble. "I have been underweight property for quite some time as the environment wasn't sustainable and it needed to consolidate. ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China and the Chinese property market is in a bubble versus not in a bubble; emerging economies will succumb to the European crisis versus emerging economies would offset ...