Via S&P: Australian prime home loan arrears fell in September, according to a recently published report from S&P Global Ratings. The Standard & Poor’s Performance Index (SPIN) for Australian prime mortgages, declined to 1.33% in September from 1.36% in August. Arrears typically fall at this point in the annual cycle, though the current arrears level
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By Leith van Onselen The NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) has updated its stamp duty data for October 2018, which revealed a phantom $500 million-plus lift in stamp duty receipts despite transfer volumes continuing to collapse: As shown in the next chart, stamp duty receipts in October were, by far, the highest on record,
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A weekend without much bad news has translated the poor showing on Wall Street to a buoyant day on stock markets here in Asia today, with just the local Australian markets suffering. The PBOC loosened the Yuan fix substantially while the failing Bitcoin had a big bounce this morning. The Shanghai Composite is down 0.3% to 2572 points
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The Australian dollar is up a little today as the RBA described a deteriorating property market. Not sure how that makes sense: Bonds worked it out a little better being well bid: XJO is down moderately despite rising US futures: That may be because iron ore is limit down in Dalian: Which has started to
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From Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor RBA (Financial Markets): Introduction Good afternoon, and thank you to the Australian Securitisation Forum for their invitation. It’s a pleasure to be here. Today I’ll provide an update on developments in the markets for housing and housing credit. These markets are closely related and both are of considerable interest to those
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Find above an interesting interview with author, strategist and economist Harry Dent by the team at Digital Finance Analytics.
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By Leith van Onselen It was a big weekend for micro-parties, who look to have landed 10 upper house seats in the Victorian Election, according to the ABC’s upper house calculator: Included in these 10 upper house seats is Sustainable Australia’s Clifford Hayes – an ex-Mayor of Bayside City Council – who took the final
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By Leith van Onselen While CoreLogic’s Daily Index is showing a circa 9% and 6% peak-to-trough decline for Sydney and Melbourne dwelling values: Real estate agent, John McGrath, has today argued that CoreLogic’s index lags the market by around three months and that losses in Sydney are more likely already 10% to 15%, whereas Melbourne
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By Leith van Onselen A coalition of housing groups – calling themselves the “Good Growth Alliance” – has joined forces to attack recent calls to slow immigration into Sydney. From The SMH: The so-called Good Growth Alliance will push for a housing summit to be held within 100 days of the March election to help
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