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CBA sends shockwave through specufestor lending market
By Leith van Onselen A day after its subsidiary, Bankwest, slammed the brakes on property investment lending for new customers, its parent, the CBA, has done likewise.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
41
The Australian mortgage ponzi keystone cracks
The keystone in the great Australian mortgage ponzi, Genworth LMI, reported today and it wasn’t terribly encouraging: All of that is serious matter of perspective.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
29
Gold goes boom!
Dalian is open and up a few points: Big Iron is still down with BHP -0.6%, RIO -02% and FMG -1.4%, it’s monster double-top firming a little: Big Gas is off again: Big Gold is going boom!
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
2
Bankwest pulls specufestor handbrake
Via the AFR: Bankwest, a subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, has slammed the brakes on property investment lending for new customers.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
27
Fortescue’s monster double top
Dalian is roughly flat during the day: Big Iron is too: FMG has formed what could be a monster double top though it needs to fall through $5.80 to confirm it: Big Gas is off on Macquarie’s downgrade: Big Gold is in heaven again!
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
More mortgage rate hikes
Via the AFR: Lenders are blaming rising wholesale and regulatory costs for a new round of increases in fixed and variable products by up to 60 basis points.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
30
Is Dodd-Frank a goner?
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
3
China reopens, Dalian limit down
China is open again today and Dalian has returned limit down -6%.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
NAB drops lending standards as APRA snores
Snooooooooooooooore: National Australia Bank is turning up the heat on rivals by making it easier for property borrowers to qualify for home loans amid concerns that red-hot property markets are beginning to boil.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
8
Yep, mortgage arrears are going higher
Moody’s is out today with its arrears data for November last year and we’re going higher.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
7
Macquarie: Banks specufestor binge “unsustainable”
From Macquarie today: Elevated housing growth will become tougher to maintain Balance sheet growth continued to gain momentum at the end of 2016, largely underpinned by ongoing strength in investor housing volumes. Investor lending growth is currently tracking at ~9% (3m ann.) and approaching APRA’s 10% growth cap.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
12
Have banks juked the stats on investor lending?
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
8
APRA the stupid gives specufestors a sniff
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
8
Mortgage arrears continue building
From S&P: The number of delinquent housing loans underlying Australian prime residential mortgage-backed securities fell in November 2016 from the previous month, according to a recent report by S&P Global Ratings.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
Why won’t the RBA kill the CLF?
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
27
Fitch puts banks on negative ratings watch, APRA ignores risks
Via Forex Live: From the Fitch Outlook report for the Australian banking sector.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
17
Banks to the moon?
I’ve long railed against the fact that the financials index (less property trusts), the XXJ, makes up over half the ASX200, with the big four banks holding over 30% by total weight.
Chris Becker
8 years ago
22
Iron ore shakeout gathers pace
It’s awn with Dalian grinding another 2% lower today triggering decent falls in Big Iron: FMG and WHC both looking very toppy.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
A little EM capital flight arrives Downunder
We all know that Australia is secretly an emerging market (EM), characterised as it is by dodgy governance, a resources curse, rent-seeking, asset bubbles and weak external accounts.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
5
Stocks dodge the building China bond syndrome
Chinese bonds are bid a little today: And Dalian is flat: Under the surface, trouble still lurks, via Bloomie: Here’s another Chinese financial practice that’s prompting high-decibel warnings.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
2
Big Iron sees light of hope in rising Chinese bond-fire
The Chinese bond-fire is rising again today and it is clearly a mini-crisis that could develop swiftly: Dalian is working it out: But not Big Iron.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
4
Dirt dumped, banks bought
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
Mortgage arrears up again
From the cowardly S&P: The number of delinquent housing loans underlying Australian prime residential mortgage-backed securities increased in October from the previous month, according to a recent report by S&P Global Ratings.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
10
Dirt high-flyers tumble as banks rock the AAA
Big Iron has bifurcated today.
David Llewellyn-Smith
9 years ago
5
Bank offshore borrowings retrace from recent highs
Leith van Onselen
9 years ago
8
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