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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... to 1,461.05, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 4.82 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 3,182.62. The National Association of Realtors announced that existing-home sales across the country rose by 7.8 per cent from July to a two-year high, and were up 9.3 per ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... versus a target of 6.25 billion. Sentiment has turned sour on Wall Street too. All because the National Association of Realtors (NAR) index of pending home sales dropped by 5.5% in April after rising by 3.8% the month before. Interpretation? Woe is the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 8.13 (0.29 per cent) to 2,839.08. The markets got early help after the National Association of Realtors reported US existing home sales across all regions in the United States increased in April, by 3.4 per cent, and home prices ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... last night. Why would it? Not now, now that America's economy seems to be gaining momentum. The National Association of Realtors update on the housing market provides more evidence of this. US existing home sales jumped by 4.3% in January to an annualised ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... eight months to wipe out existing supply of homes. What's good in this is that, according to the National Association of Realtors, seven to eight months is consistent with stable house prices. This paints another picture of a stabilising housing market. ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... market is joining other advancing activity indicators we've seen over the past few months. The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales rose by 3.7 per cent an annual rate of 5.10 million units from an upwardly revised 4.92 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... estimates and raised its forecast for the rest of the year. AT&T was up 0.8 per cent at $26.74. The National Association of Realtors reported sales of previously owned homes, the dominant sector of the housing market, rose 3.7 per cent in March. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... in four months in February, though some of the increase was driven by higher gas prices. The National Association of Realtors said more Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February than economists were expecting. Sales rose in every region but ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from the National Association of Realtors has again proved the phrase "safe as houses" wrong -- as it had during America's housing meltdown of 2007-2008. Horrendous! ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... that everything is going wrong for America or will go wrong...eventually. Bad news bears. The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales declined by a whopping 30 per cent to a fresh low of 77.6 in May. As if this wasn't to be ...