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Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... home sales dropped by 5.6% in September (more than expected and the biggest since May 2010). Based to the National Association of Realtors' data, the pending home sales index has now fallen for four straight months. Four months consecutive of falls? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... the lack of much hard news driving the market. But support came from the push to a seven-year high in the National Association of Home Builders's builder confidence index. The index hit 52, topping 50 for the first time since April 2006, with builders ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... returns revealed that investment scale is not a strong factor for determining investment outcomes. The 2012 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund Institute's Study of Endowments analysed the returns ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... it's China's turn to provide the buy-op. And why not? Fed vice chair Janet Yellen, in her speech before the National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference in Washington last night, reminded all and sundry that QE will go on until there ...

Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... US housing boom of the mid-2000's would last forever. Here was what David Lereah, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors declared back in April 2006, "Home sales will move up and down somewhat over the remainder of the year but stay ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... output may not still be going gangbusters but it's heading in the right direction. Wait there's more. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index rose to 41 in October - the sixth straight month of increase and the highest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... per cent, 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 ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... at auction 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? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... 1,316.63, while the 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 ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... anyone? This certainly is what the fresher, more up-to-date reading of homebuilder confidence implies. The National Association of Home Builders(NAHB)/Wells Fargo sentiment index steadied in March, remaining at it highest level since June 2007. Similarly ...