Australian shares nudge all-time high as bad news means good news for market
by Martin Farrer and Ben Butler from Economics | The Guardian on (#4KSWF)
ASX200 heads towards pre-GFC record, but weak economic growth spells a 'potentially dangerous' situation
A lot has changed since November 2007. Back then, John Howard was still prime minister, you could buy a nice house in Sydney for less than $500,000 and no one had ever heard of Instagram.
It was also the month when Australia's benchmark stock market index, the ASX200, reached an all-time high of 6,828.7. With the full extent of the US subprime crisis still hidden, all seemed set fair for the local market to continue growing on the back of the mining boom and strong banks.
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