Banks Warn of Growing Energy-Related Risks in Mortgage Portfolios
Across Europe, banks are trying to figure out how to handle a growing risk lurking in residential mortgage portfolios: energy consumption.
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Across Europe, banks are trying to figure out how to handle a growing risk lurking in residential mortgage portfolios: energy consumption.
South Korea’s top financial watchdog attempted to revive optimism over the nation’s corporate reform initiatives to investors in New York while soothing concerns over the short-selling ban.
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A measure of underlying US inflation cooled in April for the first time in six months, a small step in the right direction for Federal Reserve officials looking to start cutting interest rates this year.
Sep 21, 2016
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she is keeping a close eye on how British Columbia is aiming to cool its hot housing market, but remains unconvinced that a tax on foreign buyers is the right move for her province.
“We haven’t been advised by people in the province – either in the real estate sector or other sectors – that there is exactly the same issue [in Ontario]… and that the remedies would be exactly the same here,” Wynne told BNN in an interview on Wednesday.
A growing number of voices are pointing to inflated home prices as a risk for Canada’s economy. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development cut its outlook for Canada’s economy on Wednesday and issued a new warning on the housing market.
Earlier this week, CIBC Deputy Chief Economist Benjamin Tal issued a report predicting Ontario would have no choice but to implement a surcharge on foreign investment in the real estate sector. And a recent report from Sotheby’s International Realty warned there are “hints of newly redirected interest from international investors” in Toronto as a result of the B.C. tax.
Wynne expects the provinces will address housing at the next premiers’ meeting.
“There is a national discussion here made obvious by the fact that what happens in one province may have a significant impact in another,” she said.