Earnings season: longing for those green shoots

Earnings season: longing for those green shoots
Only the most hardy optimist will find many green shoots in the upcoming earnings season. (Image: Deposit Photos)
Paul McBeth
A couple of years after the global financial crisis, economists and company executives liked to talk a lot about 'green shoots'.Those were the signs of recovery they were seeking as they tried to revive optimism that life was getting back to normal.Don’t expect to hear any of that talk in the current earnings season.The trans-Tasman outbreak of omicron has everyone on edge about whether they’ll be able to juggle the increasing number of balls being thrown their way.Sure, the domestic economy is still chugging along at a rapi...

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