RE: Disconnect27 Mar 2024 17:16
Mc Muff, it could be that the market thinks there are more falls to come before it bottoms out?
maybe buying a house is a good analogy.
The house is a nice 4 bed detached in a good area. It will stay all of those things but interest rates have gone up and so the price is falling. Do you buy now or gamble it will fall further? If the expectation is for interest rates to rise further then its odds on the price will come down more. so maybe best to wait.
carrying on with this, it looks like rates have topped out and the next move will be a fall in rates, but the fall will be so small that it won't have an effect so its likely more people on fixed rates will have to renew at higher payments in the coming 12 months forcing more distressed sales causing a further fall in house prices.
None of this affects the nice house or area. Its still as nice as it was at its peak.
More specifically, many here want AS to go. That will cause disruption. How would the SP react? Up because his incompetence will now be removed and everything in the science will be better? (probably not..). Up, because things can now speed up and it gets to market quicker? (probably not).
Up, because the new CEO will tell the "truth"? meaning it will take longer to get to market than forecast? (probably not.)
Or, down because its an admission the company has been at best, mismanaged or worse it may cause some to think the results are not quite as good as reported or both?
I for one don't want AS removed now at this stage.
So the market is uncertain as to exactly whats going on and thinks the SP is likely to fall further. if that is the case it become self fulfilling and that's where I think we are.
So not as disconnected maybe as it seems.