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Surprise tapering delay boosts Australian shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... Forster said the motivation to continue printing money may in part be an attempt to sustain the recovery of the US housing market, by encouraging lenders to keep mortgage rates low. But overall, he said it was "a shame", as it put off the inevitable. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... as dealers bet on an end to the Fed's $US85-billion-a-month monetary easing. But figures showing a slump in US housing market sales on Friday allayed fears of an early stimulus rollback and led to rallies in Europe and the United States. Sydney closed ...

Zurich fund now on major platforms

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... the company towards the end of 2010 when it was very hard to find anyone with anything good to say about the US housing market.

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... 0.8% in February. Building permits - a leading indicator of housing jumped by 4.6%. No question about this. The US housing market is on the mend, perhaps even mending faster than expected. For while the Cypriots (and the Russians) are lining up to take ...

Hedge fund fees under pressure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... of trades that used to be made by the bank property desks. There has been a lot of price appreciation in the US housing market but not in underlying debt assets."

Further rate cuts to tempt investors back into risk assets: Lucas

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... numbers are encouraging and jobs are being created," Lucas observes. Lucas is also encouraged by the recovering US housing market, with marked increases in prices, construction activity, home builders' confidence and sales. "The largest luxury homebuilder ...

More good news for US housing market

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... continued political gridlock in 2013, but recovering market fundamentals are providing a welcomed kicker to the US housing market, according to research by Principal Global Investors. Private real estate equity values have continued their gradual upward ...

With or without China we're not cactus: James

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... "Unemployment is coming down and will continue to improve due to an improving house market," James advised. "The US housing market is growing again and the demand for new homes is now outpacing supply."

Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... activity also means government revenues in terms of real estate taxes. So how can this latest update to the US housing market be anything but good? It's now beginning to look that what got the world into this mess is the one that'll lead us out of it. ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... QE3, could be different from the first two rounds due to a stronger global economy and improvements within the US housing market, Fidelity said. According to Core Logic the level of negative equity continues to improve with more than $1.3 million American ...