No Crash for Canada Real Market, CIBC said it again

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Canadians haven't put themselves deep enough in debt to cause a U.S.-style housing market bust, a CIBC World Markets economist says.

In a report issued Tuesday, Benjamin Tal asks: "Where's the trigger for a Canadian house price crash?" He concludes there isn't one.

' Z8 }$ C$ A7 Y  M6 M"To be sure, house prices in Canada will continue to ease in the coming months," he says. "But the triggers that led to a free fall in Canadian real estate markets in the early 1990s and today in U.S. markets are nowhere to be found."
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  F  q; l3 `, n# x8 b5 ^) l0 {As he sees it, Canadian home buyers never got as reckless as Americans.
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  ]9 M9 ?% i, d6 R4 m"By almost any measure, American households entered the current housing crisis from a more vulnerable position relative to their Canadian counterparts — carrying a heavier debt load and a much lighter net worth position. And when it comes to real estate speculation, Canada was not really a player.
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"But even more important than the absolute and relative level of debt is the distribution of debt. At the peak of the cycle, subprime and Alt-A mortgages accounted for no less than 33 per cent of originations in the U.S. market. In Canada we estimate that at the peak, non-conforming mortgages reached 5.4 per cent of originations."
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- x7 {9 J. D% lSubprime mortgages are those given to the least creditworthy borrowers. Alt-A mortgages are considered a step higher, although the category includes so-called liars' loans in which borrowers are not required to verify their earnings or assets.
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# A: w' F8 B) |; Z$ d( x8 b/ wTal says the U.S. meltdown is basically a subprime story.
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: u% Q- m# D5 o' Y) I* ^"Eradicate subprime from the U.S. housing market and, instead of the most severe house price meltdown since the great depression, you get a trivial moderate cyclical slowing — something along the line of what we are currently experiencing in Canada."
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当然，历史已经证明CIBC他自己在市场预测上没有信誉拉，现在关键的是哪个是导致灾难的Trigger.
+ e& ]- F3 C' N, m; g( h看到有个同学已经转过次文章啦，没看到，抱歉。
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5 x0 o+ D$ t6 a[ 本帖最后由 catty 于 2008-10-1 09:32 编辑 ]