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Australia, Not Such a Lucky Country for Equities

Matt Ingram, Senior Industry Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

18-Nov-25 07:30

Australia, Not Such a Lucky Country for Equities

Australian markets have been like a yoyo this year, dropping by 10% in April to 7,343 points to then recover and hit a year to date high of 9,094 points in late October. However recent selling of late has meant the ASX 200 year to date gains are currently just 5.3%. Matt Ingram, Senior Industry Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence gives us the 2026 outlook and also if banks are the sector that will outperform.

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Produced by: Jake Lim

Presented by: Elaine Boey, Wong Shou Ning, Keith Kam


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Categories:  markets,  politics,  government,  international

Tags:  asx,  asx 200,  australian equities,  australian banks,  australian markets,  westpac,  commonwealth bank of australia, 


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