The challenge for blue chips
With weak consumer spending and soft economic growth, can these market darlings justify their rising valuations?
Investors globally are starting to indicate their growth expectations are returning. Simon Letch
Geopolitical uncertainty and low interest rates are reigniting investors’ love affair with blue chip stocks, but are the lofty valuations really justified?
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg continues to say that the fundamentals of the economy are strong and the outlook is rosy. Yet Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is edging ever closer to the drastic measure of quantitative easing.
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