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AFR tells a different story with new sharemarket indices

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 15, 2026 • 06:00 PM
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The new benchmarks tell an interesting story, if not a particularly comfortable one. The Australian economy has gradually slowed, and lags many of our peers.

AFR tells a different story with new sharemarket indices

It’s one of the oldest investor sayings of them all: “The sharemarket is not the economy.” But what if it was?

While the trusty S & P/ASX 200 has been Australia’s benchmark sharemarket index for decades, its make-up – dominated as it is by the barbells of mining and banking – bears little resemblance to the structure of the national economy.

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