Flat Christmas spend tipped for retail as housing slowdown drags on consumer sentiment

The worry for retailers is that the “wealth effect,” whereby rising housing prices along with other asset classes such as shares fuels optimism and a
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Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart has sent a letter to Premier John Horgan asking the province to rescind a new tax on real estate even though
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According to the Taiwan International Workers' Association (TIWA), it is now commonplace for brokers to charge the so-called “job-buying fees,”
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Miles Shipside, Rightmove director and housing market analyst, said: “It's usual for new-to-the-market sellers to price lower in the run-up to Christmas
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With a market capitalization of HK$4.8b, Tan Chong International is a small cap stock, so it might not be well known by many institutional investors.
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As you can see, institutional investors own 6.6% of Haitian Energy International. This can indicate that the company has a certain degree of credibility
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Average home prices rose just 0.9 percent to 305,522 pounds ($384,000) compared with November 2017, the smallest annual increase since April
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Publicis Group boss Maurice Lévy and Citigroup Global Markets chairman Cyrus Ardalan are among the investors who have contributed to a £10m
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State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System purchased a new position in shares of Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (NYSE:BXMT) during
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Joseph Incalcaterra, chief Asean economist at HSBC, discusses Thailand and Indonesia central bank policy and his outlook for emerging markets.
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REAL estate investment remains one of the most reliable and lucrative investment options going. If you track down a good deal, real estate can be a
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In a statement to shareholders, Mortgage Choice has said that it no longer expects to report a cash net profit after tax (NPAT) of $16.5 million as
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Geopolitics still dominate Russia's markets, and the threat that a fresh round of U.S. sanctions may be deployed against the region's largest economy
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MULTAN: Ali Khan Tareen, son of PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen, said that he was reconsidering his plan to bid for the sixth franchise of Pakistan
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According to our data, Tokyo Plast International Limited has a market … if the CEO is buying or selling Tokyo Plast International (free visualization of
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In its tenth edition, the event has grown into the world's largest shopping festival where 180,000 brands participate and consumers take less than two
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Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja. The reason for the massive number of empty houses across the country despite the huge deficit in the housing sector is
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The changeover at the RBI is something else entirely: an opportunity to rebuild the central bank's badly damaged credibility with financial markets.
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Andrew Fennell, director of Asia Pacific sovereigns ratings at Fitch Ratings, talks about China's economy, policies, and the implications for the
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Tuan Huynh, APAC chief investment officer and head of discretionary portfolio management at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, discusses U.S.
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