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Adam Fleck
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

One Swallow Does Not a Summer Make for Housing, but Spring Has Arrived for Infrastructure Spending.

Australia’s November housing approvals were surprisingly strong, with 17.1% growth on the previous corresponding period, or pcp, to 22,532 units. Despite this strength, approvals for the full calendar year are still tracking to decline around 5% and we forecast approvals and completions to decline by 9% in 2018. With some cost inflation, we forecast new residential construction spend, which stems from housing approvals, to decline around 6% to AUD 61.3 billion in 2018. Offsetting this weakness, ...
Underlying
CSR
CSR

CSR is engaged in the manufacture and supply of building products in Australia and New Zealand. Co. operates in four segments, Building Products, Glass, Aluminium and Property. The Building Products segment consists of Lightweight Systems, Insulation, AFS walling systems, Bricks, and Roofing. The Glass segment includes the operations of Viridian, an architectural glass provider and manufacturer of float glass and hardcoated performance products. Products from the aluminium business include aluminium ingot, billet and slab.. The Property segment sells former operating sites.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Adam Fleck

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