Sentences with phrase «canadian housing market crash»

Last year started off with a big nervous question: Will the Canadian housing market crash?

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The Conservatives could get away with this as long as the Canadian economy fared better than the rest of the world, with relatively low unemployment, relatively high wages and no sign of the housing market crash that doomsayers» predicted.

Analysts say U.S. hedge funds, expecting the Canadian housing market to crash, at times short the stock.

Flaherty wished «bad luck» to any big U.S. hedge funds betting short - selling the Canadian market in the belief the housing market will crash, in hopes of making a profit.

Canadians might remember former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney for his repeated assurances that the overvalued Canadian housing market could come off its unprecedented highs without crashing.

When I hear this quote, I think of the current bubble in the Canadian housing market and it's similarities to the crash of» 08.

A more serious question now: while the Canadian housing market is too small to precipitate the world wide financial meltdown that the American housing crash did, would it not be prudent to set aside some cash so that should the TSX make a precipitous drop due to our own home grown housing meltdown...

Our gut feeling on the Canadian housing market is that it is a speculative and frothy mess that is about to come crashing down.

So, even if the Canadian housing market were to crash by 20 % to 40 %, Canadian household equity ratios would remain strong — decreasing to a low of 56.7 % and a high of 67.5 %.

House prices have remained a «bedrock of value» for Canadians over the past year, despite a steady flood of gloomy media headlines about the slowing Canadian economy, the volatility of the world's stock markets, and the United States» housing crash and credit crisis, according to a national survey by Century 21 Canada brokers.

But another report, by Jim MacGee of the C.D. Howe institute, concludes that Canadian housing policies have done a good job to ensure that a U.S. - style housing market crash is not likely to happen here.