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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.+ i2 Z4 d( T4 b5 z3 v
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In a report issued Tuesday, Benjamin Tal asks: "Where's the trigger for a Canadian house price crash?" He concludes there isn't one.2 s' g- Z( ~# [8 d
3 F0 o$ r+ p7 t% k' }- F. _0 }"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."0 U# v& W1 b8 A
+ R9 z8 H# N0 D9 I nAs he sees it, Canadian home buyers never got as reckless as Americans.# I4 `3 c: e; B: Z
; H$ ] l) d. D& {# n"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.") {+ L; S" Z1 ]6 n- f" y' ?7 R$ }. R
# l1 V1 Z4 \- WSubprime 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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( {% w u H7 B9 a+ W8 y- }- _Tal says the U.S. meltdown is basically a subprime story.
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"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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9 Y+ c! r0 ~; O: _6 I {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.
9 D+ _/ K- o7 N7 c2 M" m3 o看到有个同学已经转过次文章啦,没看到,抱歉。
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