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Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... and three times the 10 year US treasury yield. Meanwhile, the combination of a rising Aussie dollar and a soft US housing market means that from an Australian perspective, the bargains may never be as good. In contrast to the dominant approach here in ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... closed higher. Foreclosure investigations. Looks new. Sounds new. But underneath this all is the fact that the US housing market remains in trouble. Whether the US National Association of Attorneys General finds that home lenders falsified documents ...

Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... economy as it teeters precariously on the brink of a double dip recession. "It's reasonable to anticipate that the US housing market is going to remain soft for the foreseeable future," said John Wilson, head of PIMCO Australia. With banks unable to ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... data depending on their pre-conceived views of where the investment world is headed. There was good news on the US housing market last night. The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index rose by 1.3% in May -- the second straight monthly increase - following ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the jury's still out of the US housing market at this point in time. If you want to something bullish to tide you over today, look at the American companies reporting their ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... their GFC lows? I'll bet my right eyeballs that most "experts" are now tinkering with their forecasts for the US housing market, proclaiming that the caffeine hit from the homebuyers' tax credit is now no more. The problem it seems is that these "experts" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... property stocks responded to a tightening of their wholesale funding costs and continuing negative news from the US housing market. Resource stocks gained ground on an early surge, with the market assuming a change of prime ministership may be bring ...

US Commission subpoenas Goldman Sachs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the US housing market was beginning to falter. According to a press statement, Goldman Sachs was alleged to have structured and marketed ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... night. The S&P 500 index shot up by 2.6 per cent and the Dow jumped by 2.3 per cent following good news on the US housing market. Ahh! Investors are back to watching US fundamentals now. US pending home sales rose by 6 per cent in April - better than ...

FSA starts Goldman Sachs investigation

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to sub-prime mortgages as the US housing market was beginning to falter. According to a press statement, Goldman Sachs was alleged to have structured and marketed a synthetic ...