Prepare for a Bear Market in 2022: Bank of America

Barrons2022-02-28

The recent recovery in stocks may be short-lived, according to Bank of America Securities, which sees a bear market setting in through 2022 and suggests that investors tilt to cash and commodities....

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robot1234
2022-03-01
robot1234
Last year, US stock indices hit numerous ATH due to massive QE and zero interest rate. Now these steroid strategy is coming back to bite the US economy.Inflation is at 7.5%, highest since 1982 due to unlimited printing of money. The FED will be forced to terminate its zero interest rate regime, and to trim her massive $9 trillion balance sheet. The Ukraine crisis and trade disruption and sanctions will throw another spanner at the FED. The Biden Administration is now on high tempo fighting two fronts from Europe to Asia. More bad news for equities.
pipiso
2022-03-01
pipiso
跌的兇，漲的猛
muiee
2022-03-01
muiee
Maybe but maybe bulls have one last shot, Mar maybe seasonality low but after April bulls could charge again?
Jamster
2022-03-01
Jamster
Oh yes!
.kok
2022-02-28
.kok
Ok
666huat666
2022-02-28
666huat666
Do not buy USA stocks..

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The outlook is worsening with geopolitical risks exacerbating potential for inflation, higher commodity prices, and “shocks” to growth.Negative real interest rates, adjusted for inflation, are another ominous sign. Going back 250 years, negative rates have been “synonymous” with crashes, panics, and wars, he notes.Hartnett also calls out signs of cracking in retail and home-building, pointing out that Home Depot (ticker: HD) stock is down 29% from its peak while builders such as Toll Brothers (TOL) are off 38%. The declines imply cracks in consumer spending, which rarely happens outside recessions, he notes. 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Of all the major asset classes, commodities was the only one to produce positive returns during the 1973-74 stagflation shock, triggered by the OPEC oil embargo.Other asset classes that should hold up relatively well include Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, small-cap value stocks and emerging markets (the latter because of their links to commodities).Tactical bets may also pay off, for instance, when the Nasdaq falls at least 20% below its 200-day moving average. The Nasdaq was down 15% from those averages on Thursday, which may have helped trigger its bounce.Another buy signal would be when at least 80% of global equity indexes fall below their 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Currently, 31% of indexes are below those averages.At some point, market capitulation will settle in—the market will be so washed out that it will be time to buy. But we aren’t there yet in stocks, Hartnett writes, and the Fed hasn’t even begun to tighten. “Portfolios should position for stagflation and dollar debasement,” he says.While this outlook seems quite depressing, it isn’t assured. For all the negatives, one could find counterpoints, including a strong U.S. economy, lower energy intensity in the economy than in the 1970s, and productivity gains arising from technology and globalization.Stock multiples also have come down and many large-cap growth companies have fallen so much that they’ve given up their pandemic gains, including Walt Disney (DIS), Salesforce.com (CRM), Netflix (NFLX), PayPal Holdings (PYPL), and Meta Platforms (FB).Whether they’re truly bargains depends on one’s outlook: If the Fed can thread the needle with its monetary policies and the geopolitical tensions calm down, the markets should rise modestly as the economy slows over the next year, but doesn’t fall into a recession. 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