âFocusing on better timesâ: Investors say market momentum to flow into 2021
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Major investors are optimistic the sharemarket recovery will continue into 2021 and are tipping strong earnings growth as companies return to stability on the back of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.
Leading global asset manager Janus Henderson says the virus is still the most influential factor in markets across the world, but tips 2021 as âa year of exceptionally strong earnings growthâ.
âThe coronavirus changed everything, killing over 1.6 million people, wiping $US22,000 billion off global stock markets in a few weeks, plunging the global economy into the worst recession since WWII and provoking a $US21 trillion monetary and fiscal policy response,â Paul OâConnor, the firmâs head of the multi-asset team wrote in a note to clients.
The Short Squeeze: Can US earnings justify prices?
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January 25, 2021 â 11.53am
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The forestry vision that turned into a nightmare
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When Nationals politician John Anderson released a policy called Plantations for Australia: The 2020 Vision back in 1997, he had no idea how nightmarish that vision would turn out to be.
Instead of creating thousands of hectares of environmentally friendly native forests and a thriving timber industry, one ASX-listed company has been left with a charred mess and no easy way of cleaning it up.
This is a story of some of the worst government decisions in recent history crashing into the extreme heat of the 2019-20 summer. The drama is set about 200 kilometres south-west of Adelaide on Kangaroo Island, a flat land mass 155 kilometres wide and one-third as long with above average rainfalls and mild summers. And it starts with the Keating goverment’s National Forest Policy Statement of 1992, which stated places like Kangaroo Island were great for growing timber.
A black swan arising: Test your knowledge in the 2020 Biz Quiz
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It was one of the most extraordinary years in living memory. A once-in-one-hundred-years kind of year with the pandemic causing wild market swings, huge gains, and some of the most unexpected business events in the country s history. But how much can you really remember? Relive the trauma of 2020 with our business quiz.
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