And now for an Aussie stock bubble?

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Via the AFR:

The annual reporting season has been a highly successful one for the market’s most expensive stocks, which are being elevated to even higher multiples on results that are just OK.

Goldman Sachs equity strategist Matthew Ross finds that with 37 per cent of the market having reported, most of the “premium” rated names have experienced further multiple expansion. That means the broker’s long-short quality factor is now up 20 per cent year-to-date, advancing 3.6 per cent last week.

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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.