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House prices 30 pct overvalued

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... is receiving a huge boost to national income from strong commodity prices. So the downside to the Australian economic outlook is nowhere near as great as in the US, UK and Europe. This means that a massive round of delinquencies and defaults and hence ...

Shares in the black despite the bears

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... "While the worst of the credit crunch may be over, credit markets are still a long way from behaving normally, the economic outlook is still deteriorating both globally and in Australia and considerable profit downgrades lie ahead. This all means that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... Dr David Gruen from Treasury's Macroeconomic group speaks at the Australian Business Economists lunch on the economic outlook. In company news, Seven Network chairman and WA Newspapers board aspirant Kerry Stokes talks at Western Australian Business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... US stocks gained on Monday as a report showing stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity helped the economic outlook and a plan to overhaul the regulation of US financial markets boosted bank shares. Despite the gains on the last day of the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... base metals prices fell sharply in London overnight, investors worrying about a slowdown in demand as the US economic outlook worsened. BHP Billiton lost $1.39 to $36.11, rival Rio Tinto slipped $4.10 to $122.90 and Alumina fell three cents to $5.53. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Japan's Nikkei share average ended flat, with banks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial falling on worries about the economic outlook, offsetting gains in resource-related shares amid rising commodity prices. The Nikkei average hardly moved, up just 0.10 ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... ahead of the next Opec meeting in Vienna amid mounting worries that record oil prices are worsening the global economic outlook. Having reached a high of $100.09 a barrel three weeks ago, crude oil prices bounced back to $87.50 a barrel on Wednesday ...

Scary markets II

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... entered a correction phase over the past week and, considering the lingering credit market woes, an uncertain US economic outlook, slowing profit growth and oil price spikes, it was probably inevitable. Far from being scary, beyond short-term uncertainty ...

More rich get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... findings, more than 28 per cent of the 17,500 UHNWIs in the region are in China." While in its October 2007 World Economic Outlook, the IMF forecast slower global growth, albeit of a still respectable 4.75 per cent, emerging markets have taken over as ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket opened lower today after comments by the largest US mortgage company on the economic outlook drove stocks down in New York. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had lost 38.9 points to 6120.8, and the all ordinaries ...