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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... fastest pace in four months in February, though some of the increase was driven by higher gas prices. The National Association of Realtors said more Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February than economists were expecting. Sales rose in every ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... 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 and signatures - or not - to justify foreclosing on American ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from the National Association of Realtors has again proved the phrase "safe as houses" wrong -- as it had during America's housing meltdown of 2007-2008. ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... decided to face its fears anyway. There was again no shortage of bad news overnight. In the United States, the National Association of Home Builders confidence index sank to 14 in July from a 16 in the previous month. This the lowest level since March ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... misled investors about its safety procedures and strategies when disasters occur. Separately, the UK-based National Association of Pension Funds, which represents more than $1.3 trillion in retirement assets, found most UK pension fund would have an ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... markets assuming that everything is going wrong for America or will go wrong...eventually. Bad news bears. The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales declined by a whopping 30 per cent to a fresh low of 77.6 in May. As if this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... May after the expiry of a deadline to obtain a government homebuyer tax credit, an industry group said. The National Association of Realtors said its pending home sales index tumbled 30.0 per cent to 77.6 based on contracts signed in May. Meanwhile ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The UK-based National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which represents more than $1.3 trillion in pension fund assets, said UK equities represent around ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... its biggest drop in about two weeks. Treasury prices climbed after demand for safe investments rose. The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes fell 2.2 per cent in May. The report surprised analysts who thought sales ...

UK pension lose $6bn on BP oil spill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... share price, which has plummeted more than 36 per cent since the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The UK-based National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which represents more than $1.3 trillion in pension fund assets, said UK equities represent around ...