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Frances Schwartzkopff| Bloomberg| 27 November 2016 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/430-billion-mortgage-bond-market-110000783.html Donald Trump may have frightened off global bond investors, but the world’s largest mortgage-backed covered-bond market is shrugging off the specter of a real estate mogul with big spending plans running the U.S. Short-term yields in Denmark’s $430 billion mortgage bond market fell close to (and in some […]

Tim Lawless| Corelogic Blog| 10 November 2016 http://blog.corelogic.com.au/2016/11/us-presidency-trump-card-aussie-housing-bad-hair-day/ A new leader of the world’s largest super power will always be accompanied by uncertainty, however the election of Donald Trump highlights (in the words of another Donald (Rumsfeld)) that “unknown unknowns” have been amplified. This means uncertainty. Trump is untested, unproven, and if the election campaign […]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-05/interest-rates-calculator-big-four-banks/7808804 Matt Martino, Colin Gourlay and Ben Spraggon | ABC Business| 5 October 2016 When the Reserve Bank of Australia announces an interest rate cut, all eyes turn immediately to the big banks to see if they’ll follow suit. This month, the RBA decided to leave interest rates on hold but since November 2011, the […]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-05/interest-rates-calculator-big-four-banks/7808804 Matt Martino, Colin Gourlay and Ben Spraggon | ABC Business| 5 October 2016 When the Reserve Bank of Australia announces an interest rate cut, all eyes turn immediately to the big banks to see if they’ll follow suit. This month, the RBA decided to leave interest rates on hold but since November 2011, the […]

http://www.thebull.com.au/articles/a/62953-will-the-reserve-bank-cut-rates-again.html Craig James| Comm Sec| 3 October 2016 Reserve Bank Board meeting The Reserve Bank has left the cash rate at a record low of 1.50 per cent. The Reserve Bank is expected to await the September quarter inflation data in late October to decide the next move in rates. What does it all mean? Will the […]

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/30/vancouver-canada-house-prices-solution-super-heated-housing-market Patrick Collinson| The Guardian| 30 September 2016 There is a city which is suffering a worse property bubble than Sydney, whose residents are more priced-out than Londoners, and where there is a greater divide between the housing haves and have-nots than even San Francisco. That city is Vancouver, and in response to these mounting […]