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Weak tenant demand hurts Aussie property outlook

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... global real estate markets in 2013 - albeit with performance varying greatly from country to country - was helped by a recovery in overall capital markets. La Salle global head of research and strategy Jacques Gordon said recent market turbulence has ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... the line in the FOMC minutes, "Several participants worried that higher mortgage rates and bond yields could slow the recovery in the housing market and restrain business expansion". It could reverse the wealth effect and the virtuous cycle the Fed has ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... investors have learnt to accept that reduce policy stimulation goes hand in hand with a stronger and more sustainable recovery. Nothing wrong with that, is there? But if Wall Street's just getting used to the idea of reduced Fed accommodation, it might ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... markets caught in two minds between the prospect of the imminent prospect of tapering, and the benefits of an economic recovery," Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets UK, said. The euro sank to $US1.2806 ($A1.41) - which was the lowest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... best performers, gaining nearly two per cent. Woodside Petroleum was 38 cents, or 1.1 per cent up, at $35 in a slight recovery from some heavy losses on Wednesday following a production downgrade. Oil Search on Thursday morning had leapt up by 19 cents ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... its finance minister. This prompted speculation of more resignations by government ministers that could derail Lisbon's recovery. There's also Greece - it might not get the next tranche of its bailout worth a,-8.1 billion. The IMF/EU/ECB troika has given ...

Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The recovery in super fund returns that continued apace in the year to May 2013 points to 2012/13 being the best returns year since 2007. The upbeat assessment is contained in the latest SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... bring advisers again to the independent space. Regardless of whether advisers choose to be aligned or non-aligned, the recovery of the platforms market may be a sign that financial advice is still very much alive. Meanwhile, the long term consequences ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... May. Through this all, I've always maintained that the Fed is no fool to reduce stimulus prematurely while the economic recovery is not yet assured. Now the markets appear to have finally cottoned on. Yeah, yeah...after the fact you say. I beg your pardon ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... place because they win if the Fed don't taper and if the Fed does because it means that the economy is stronger and the recovery sustainable. Or shorter-term, market nerves appear to have been quieted by soothing words from central bankers. We've already ...