Australian Shares

Why is the ASX so crap?

David Llewellyn-Smith
Monday 6 February 2017
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Bloomie has a piece on the lagging ASX today:

It all started so well for Australian stocks this year, as they rallied to touch the highest since May 2015.

That euphoria has ended abruptly as banks dragged down the country’s main index, making it the worst-performing major Asian stock gauge. The nation’s biggest lenders are getting hit as concern grows that their share prices rose too far, too fast given uncertainty around changes to regulation in a low-growth cycle.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.