'New Age' boom: Danger lurks as the sharemarket's great divide gets bigger

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Opinion: Since the onset of the pandemic, the gap between stocks with infinite potential like Amazon and more traditional choices has become a gulf. But trouble could be ahead

The coronavirus pandemic seems to have accelerated a longer term trend in sharemarkets, exaggerating a pre-existing divergence between "growth" and "value" stocks.

Massive infusions of liquidity and ultra-cheap credit have forced investors to take increasing risks, encouraging/coercing them to chase the stocks that hold some promise of generating acceptable returns without pricing in the risks. Even if the historical relationship between growth and value stocks isn’t restored, the current acceleration of the divergence in their pricing could easily, and violently, be narrowed if there were kind of shock to investor confidence.

"At that point most projects become viable and, as corporates scramble for deals that yield any meaningful return, the pool of viable opportunities diminishes, forcing an even more aggressive competition, driving both cost of equity and returns ever closer towards zero."His explanation for why tech stocks appear to defy gravity is predicated on a transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age and a less capital-intensive, less capacity-constrained, less labour-intensive era.

 

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What a plan by the Fed. Produce $3T out of thin air, pick 10 of the biggest stocks and pump into infinity. Index is up and everyone is happy. The ultimate bubble. Well done.

Just in time for Biden to take power.... Wait did not the same thing happen before Obama got to power?

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