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RMBS under the spotlight

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... Bond manager giant PIMCO also said last month that it was buying RMBS. "While some commentators have claimed Australian housing has become a bubble, various RMBS features provide downside risk mitigation against potential house price volatility, " said ...

Clash of the titans on housing bubble

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
The debate over an Australian housing bubble resurfaced this week and two of the world's leading investment houses are on opposite sides of the argument. GMO's Jeremy Grantham, a self-confessed student of asset price bubbles and an outspoken believer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for September, and QBE LMI and BIS Shrapnel launch their Australian Housing Outlook 2010 report The Australian Office of Financial Management conucts a tender for the issue of $250 million of Treasury ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... per cent," Mr Curtin said. "That was seen as not worse than expected, which allowed our market to claw back." Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing rose 1.3 per cent in November, seasonally adjusted, to 49,192, the Australian ...

Fed does an RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... but remained below the 50 expansion/contraction mark. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release the Australian housing finance report at 11:30 AM. Housing finance is expected to decline by a more modest 2.0 percent in June, after the massive 7.9 ...

House prices 30 pct overvalued

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... spiral, said Dr Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors. "The Australian housing market is softening, the outlook for house prices has deteriorated. Some are still talking about big gains on the back of ...

Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing fell by a seasonally adjusted 6.1 per cent in March, which was much worse than the median market forecast for a one per cent fall. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said 59,371 home ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... is what we saw last night, and the Aussie dollar gets sold off as well." Mr Solar said the release today of Australian housing finance data and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Survey had little impact on the market.

Under-building down under

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... While the sub-prime meltdown has left the US economy bruised with housing oversupplied and house prices soggy, Australian housing is suffering from supply shortages and prices going through the roof. US economic growth has progressively slowed, where ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
The Australian housing industry continues to display pent up momentum with the latest ABS data showing that despite the three interest rate hikes of last year there were increases over the period of November to December of 1.1 per cent in the value ...