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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... the most back in November 2009, recording an annual growth rate of 0.7%, and expanded the most (17.3%) on January 2008. Housing loans accounted for the bulk of the gains in total credit in May, up 0.5% over the month and 7.3% over the year. Growth in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
Australia new home sales The Housing Industry Association reported that sales of new homes fell by 4.4% to 7,278 units in the month of May following a 4.7% decline in the previous month. Sales of detached homes continued to contract - down by 6.7% in ...

Banks will always take more risk: APRA exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... Littrell said. The Reserve Bank of Australia's financial stability department head, Luci Ellis, said while it is true housing booms and moves in housing prices tend to occur ahead of banking crises, it's usually not the mortgage book that's the issue ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... meeting after the CPI report - out on 27 July - confirms that inflation remains below target. US house prices The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported that the average prices of single-family homes increased by 0.2% in the month of April following ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... year, there are more positive signs as output and demand stabilise." Hong Kong CPI inflation Easing food, transport and housing prices lowered Hong Kong's annual CPI inflation rate to 2.6% in May from 2.7% in the previous month. This is less than market ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... in May - the slowest since April last year -- from 2.1% in the previous month on the back of cheaper prices for food, housing & utilities and transport. Likewise, core inflation decelerated from 2.3 to 2.1% in May. Easing inflation should give Bank Negara ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Australia housing finance The latest dwelling finance commitment report gave almost immediate evidence to the RBA governor Glenn Stevens' 7 June statement that, "Indications are that the effects of supervisory measures have strengthened lending standards ...

UK pensions not fussed about in-housing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
While large Australian institutions such as AustralianSuper and HOSTPLUS are increasingly turning to in-housing of their investment capabilities, the UK pensions industry remains fairly comfortable farming out management of its assets to third-party ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... from 6.4% in March. Growth in credit to businesses quickened in April, rising by 0.8% over the month from 0.3% in March. Housing credit growth slowed to 0.4% from 0.5% in the previous month while personal credit declined by 0.1% in April, slower than ...

Self-employed missing super savings

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... research comes from new and previously unpublished data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in its survey of Housing Income and Wealth (2013-14), as well as other ABS data. "The ABS data reinforces the diversity of retirement savings for both ...