UK Commercial Property Update Effective City office rental values to continue to outperform Headline IPD City office rental values fell by less than the West End during the 2008/09 downturn. But effective rents in the City market actually fared much worse. Since the end of 2009, however... 9th September 2010 · 1 min read
US Housing Market Chart Pack Home sales in freefall The floor has fallen out from underneath the housing market in the months since the homebuyer tax credit expired in April. In July, total home sales fell by 26% m/m, to a level not seen in 17 years... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economics Update Belgian political stalemate increases debt concerns Recent developments are not easing the concerns that we have previously raised over Belgium being the Greece of the North. While the Belgian economy is growing healthily, the current political crisis... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Latin America Economics Update Markets still overestimating rate hikes in Chile 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
UK Economics Update Sterling rally may not be over rally in the pound has fizzled out over the last few weeks. But with concerns over the euro-zone likely to re-surface before too long and the UK set to press ahead with a decisive fiscal tightening... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economics Update Greece's fiscal headwinds gather strength With Greece likely to receive its second tranche of loans from the euro-zone and IMF next week, the Government will be able to meet its financing needs for the next few months. But Q2’s dreadful GDP... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Emerging Europe Economics Focus Central Europe: the fiscal squeeze is here 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Data Response German Industrial Production & Trade & Spanish Ind. Prod. (Jul.) The latest German industrial and trade data add to evidence that the recoveries in these sectors are beginning to lose momentum. Nonetheless, Germany looks set to remain the euro-zone’s main engine of... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
UK Data Response UK Ind. Production (Jul.) July’s manufacturing output figures defied the rather gloomier tone of some of the recent industrial surveys. Still, there are good reasons to expect the industrial recovery to lose at least some... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
UK Data Response Halifax House Prices (Aug.) The latest rise in the Halifax measure of house prices does little to settle the debate about the house price outlook. But the fact that house prices continue to fall on a quarterly basis seems... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
UK Data Response Halifax House Prices (Aug.) The latest rise in the Halifax measure of house prices does little to settle the debate about the house price outlook. But the fact that house prices continue to fall on a quarterly basis seems... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update Interest rate rises unlikely to dampen Swedish property recovery The latest rise in Swedish interest rates may raise concerns that the nascent commercial property market recovery could slow. But that seems unlikely. For one thing, interest rates are still very low... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Japan Data Response Machinery Orders, Bank Credit, & EWS Today's batch of data showed that machine orders were strong in July but bank credit figures for August and the current conditions index of last month's Economy Watchers Survey (EWS) were... 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
Capital Daily Bank of Canada should move to the sidelines after today 8th September 2010 · 1 min read
