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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... and girds for the year-end holiday period. Investors are expected to carefully monitor data on sales of new and existing homes for evidence that a recovery is on track in the sector at the epicentre of the financial crisis. Another report that could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... plans to rein in the soaring real-estate sector. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised the downpayment requirement on homes valued at 20 million Hong Kong dollars or more to 40 percent from 30 percent, to cool a rapid rise in the prices of luxury homes. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... investors to book recent gains despite strong results from bellwethers, including Apple and Caterpillar. New construction of US homes rose less than expected in September and US producer prices posted an unexpected decline, both pointing to an anemic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... construction and building permits rose in August. The Commerce Department reported construction starts on privately owned homes rose 1.5 per cent to an annual rate of 598,000 in August from July. Permits to build new homes, a leading indicator of the ...

Property still in favour

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... invest in their home for capital gain, said Robert Caulfield, managing director of Archicentre. "Many people are seeing their homes as the superannuation fund they can enjoy the benefits of and sell when ready, attracting no capital gains tax if the ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... about, credit is still hard to come by as lending standards are tightened, lesser-known US banks are still closing shop, US homes are still being foreclosed. And the little income that American consumers earn is being saved and not spent. Have money ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... the collapse of Lehman, which led to the financial market rout, which led to the recession, which led to them losing their homes and their jobs...and then giving their money to the banks and other financial institutions. Wall Street's tepid response ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... ignored (reported in another section). And this is that 'other' good news on the housing market. Remember yesterday's new homes sales report? The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index rose by 0.5 per cent in May from April - the first increase since July ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... Jobs and Assets) jumpstarted the mess that is the global financial crisis? It's now showing signs of repair. Sales of new homes jumped by 11 per cent to an annualised rate of 384,000 units in June. Yeah so what? So what is: this is the biggest gain in ...

McAlpine leaves CBUS for Health Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
The $7 billion industry super fund Health Super has appointed Megan McAlpine to the role of marketing manager. McAlpine joined Health Super earlier this week. The position has been vacant for a number of months following Sonia Trone's departure on maternity ...