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Alicia Barry

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227 total appearances

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ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

And then, I mean, look, this week we've been talking about interest rates really hurting people.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

So...

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

The way that you kind of marry these two things, what's happening in the economy and how just stocks just keep rallying, it's really difficult to kind of, you know,

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

Well, no, and that has everything to do with what you just said, Carrington, the concentration.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

If you look at the tech concentration in the US, I mean, it's about 32% of the index made up by these mega cap tech stocks.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

And investors are buying the growth story.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

I mean, there have been some concerns that these tech companies are spending too much, but there's still so much growth

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

baked into them returning on that investment.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

People want to buy that growth story still.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

And Microsoft.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

Yeah, that's right.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

But if you contrast the gains that we're seeing in the US with what we're seeing in Australia, I mean, the NASDAQ is up about 13% this year, I think, from memory.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

If we look at the Australian share market, it's up about 3%, 4%, I think.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

But our tech sector compared to the US, it's about...

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

6%.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

We do have some big names like WiseTech.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

On the data centers.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

Yes.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

Yeah, that's right.

ABC Business Daily
When an AGM feels like a funeral

I mean, we do have a few, as I said, about 6% or so, but it is really minor in comparison to what's going on in the US.