{"id":920613,"date":"2026-10-08T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920613\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:30:17","slug":"economy-versus-sharemarket-does-a-countrys-economic-performance-dictate-investment-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920613\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy versus sharemarket; does a country\u2019s economic performance dictate investment returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Australia were a company, would you invest in it? I think it is fair to say that, based on Australia\u2019s current economic scorecard, in isolation, the answer would quite possibly be no.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a capital markets investor, is it as simple as correlating a country\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/the-nowhere-economy-australia-now-faces-a-lost-decade-20261002-p611xw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> forecast economic headwinds<\/a> with a forecast of future listed-company shareholder returns?<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Australia were a company, would you invest in it? I think it is fair to say that,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-920613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}