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Updated January 19, It's certainly the bubble getting the most attention this week, but people should also be careful of risks in the property and stocks markets, according to a report by Danish investment bank Saxo Bank. A bubble is "the situation created when prices go super-exponential" and causes a "departure from fundamentals", he said. Another characteristic is that it's driven by "pure speculation" as "traders are buying and selling without even considering the fundamental value of the asset".
However, he warned this is followed by an eventual "sudden sharp decline when the bubble bursts". The entire cryptocurrency market plunged on Wednesday, amid fears of a major regulatory crackdown in South Korea. It was a sea of red, with the big players bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple dropping by more than 20, 25 and 40 per cent respectively. Jacob Pouncey, Saxo Bank's crypto analyst, said "will be a make-or-break year for the burgeoning crypto[currency] asset market".
Furthermore, there are parallels that can be drawn between cryptocurrencies and the dot-com boom in the late s. In a similar vein, companies like beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea Corp have capitalised on the current "crypto bubble" by renaming itself "Long Blockchain Corp", which saw its share price skyrocket in December.
But its impact would not have much of an impact on the wider economyaccording to Capital Economics. He identified the riskiest property markets to be Australia, London, Hong Kong, Sweden, and Norway — where housing prices kept rising despite the global financial crisis. Australia's household debt to income ratio is around per cent, and tipped to grow further. However, investors may feel comforted knowing there's always someone in a less fortunate situation.
The authors of the report stated Australia's housing bubble has been going on for 14 years, with properties appreciating by per cent — and average home prices 6. In contrast, London property has shot up per cent in 21 years, with average home prices 12 times higher than typical household incomes. Hong Kong's prospective buyers were found to be in an even worse position — with a per cent rise in values, and home prices 18 times higher than average incomes.
What's behind the rampant rise in property prices is "accommodative monetary policy and excess liquidity," Mr Dembik said. In other words, too much money being lent very low interest rates which makes it all too easy for people to borrow above their means. Although stock markets, particularly in the United States, are posting "record-highs" on an almost-daily basis, the report did not go so far as to call it a bubble.
At most, he conceded "a correction is likely" since investor sentiment is "so overextended that investors can only be disappointed". As for what he sees believes might cause this 'non-bubble' to pop, the biggest risks are "policy mistakes" from China and US central banks, and whether inflation undershoots, or overshoots.
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