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  Is the "killer" of the US bull market coming? Will the Fed sit back?
  如果通胀只是保持适度水平，对股票的估值不会有多大影响。面对劳动力和原材料等成本的上扬，企业只要能够同时提高他们的产品和服务的价格就可以了。这样，他们的营收增长速度就能够和通胀增长保持同步——事实上，也
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Will the Fed sit back?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1120940757","media":"腾讯美股","summary":"如果通胀只是保持适度水平，对股票的估值不会有多大影响。面对劳动力和原材料等成本的上扬，企业只要能够同时提高他们的产品和服务的价格就可以了。这样，他们的营收增长速度就能够和通胀增长保持同步——事实上，也","content":"<p><i>If inflation just stays modest, it won't have much impact on the valuation of stocks. In the face of rising costs such as labor and raw materials, companies can only raise the prices of their products and services at the same time. In this way, their revenue growth can keep pace with inflation growth-in fact, it is the price changes of their products that determine the reading of the consumer price index. If real interest rates rise sufficiently, though, all else held constant, stocks will take a major hit. The real interest rate will push up the discount rate, which will shrink the real value of future profits of enterprises.</i><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/63ef8eb3a8d7b23c2e3c6e7df0b59de7\" tg-width=\"1080\" tg-height=\"718\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">During the trading day on Thursday, February 25th, the yield of long-term bonds suddenly soared, which scared the participants in the US stock market into a cold sweat and gave them an unprecedented clear understanding-in 2021, the number one keyword in the market was interest rate. This is the root cause of the selloff in tech stocks as U.S. stocks plunged across the board on Thursday.</p><p>Suddenly, the 10-year Treasury Bond yield, the bond market index, soared from 1.389% at Wednesday's close to 1.565% that afternoon, and finally closed at 1.518%, comparable to last February's level before the outbreak. In fact, for quite some time, the trend of rising long-term interest rates has already existed, but the market has somewhat chosen to ignore it. However, by Thursday, this rush finally made everyone lose their breath and began to think that maybe this is just the beginning of some big event. In the end, the Dow closed 1.75% lower on the same day, the S&P 500 closed 2.45% lower, and the Nasdaq, a heavy technology stock, lost 3.52%.</p><p>So far, rising long-term interest rates have not caused much substantial trouble. However, if this surge forms a long-term trend, the high valuations of large U.S. stocks, especially those of big tech stocks, will suffer a severe hit-and, horribly, the probability of a trend looks increasing. \"The key question at the moment is whether we have reached that turning point.\" Chris Brightman, chief investment officer of Research Affiliates, which monitors the strategies of many mutual funds and ETFs with a total size of $145 billion, analyzed, \"Until not long ago, interest rates were moving from below the Fed's target to reaching the Fed's target. Now, they have reached the target (based on inflation expectations), but we see that the upward momentum is still strong. If this momentum persists, interest rates will far exceed the Fed's target.\"</p><p>Such developments are likely to derail the current bull market.</p><p>From the end of 2019 to mid-April 2020, at the height of the Covid recession, the ten-year Treasury Bond yield (what the average person calls the long-term interest rate) shrank all the way from 1.88% to 0.58%. After that, the yield began to rebound slightly and continuously, but even so, by the end of 2020, it was still at a super low of 0.93%. After the beginning of 2021, the small march of yield continued, and few investors paid attention to it. It was not until February 25th that the major psychological barrier of 1.5% was broken, and investors woke up from a dream (the analysis later in this article is all based on the premise that the yield is 1.5%). Needless to say, the determination of interest rates is largely based on inflation expectations. Currently, the consumer price index is growing at an annual rate of 1.4%, but long-term bond yields are forward-looking — they reflect not current inflation realities, but inflation expectations over the next decade.</p><p>Here's a key piece of data, the breakeven inflation rate (EBI), which reflects investors' overall expectations for the consumer price index over the next decade. What worries the market at present is largely the trajectory of the breakeven inflation rate. From last May to now, it has fully doubled from 1.1% to 2.2%.</p><p>The 10-year Treasury Bond yield has risen from about 0.60% last summer to 1.5% now, a development that should be interpreted from two perspectives. First, it is the change in the inflation outlook, which is clearly reflected in the breakeven inflation rate. Second, it is the change in interest rates adjusted for inflation, the so-called \"real interest rate\". Both of these have powerful influence on future stock prices. More than half of the aforementioned 0.9% increase in the ten-year Treasury Bond yield is the progress of the first few weeks of 2021. So, how much role did the two factors play in this increase?</p><p>The most significant factor so far has been the sharp rise in inflation expectations. Since July last year, the breakeven inflation rate has soared from 1.6% to 2.2% now, a 0.6% increase that accounts for two-thirds of the 0.9% increase in the 10-year Treasury Bond yield. The other 0.3% comes from real interest rates (from negative to less negative).</p><p>Inflation expectations have been high and real interest rates have risen in a short period of time, both of which are bad news for stocks. Although at present, the consumer price index is only 1.4%, this figure will continue to rise in the future, which will cause trouble sooner or later. During Wednesday's congressional hearing, Fed President Powell also predicted that inflation would fall below the U.S. central bank's 2% target until 2023. However, if the market break-even inflation rate is accurate, it is likely that inflationary pressures will appear before then. In other words, if the average inflation rate in the next decade is 2.2%, and the inflation rate in the first three years is below 2%, then it is obvious that the inflation rate will be much higher than 2.2% in the next seven years.</p><p>It should be pointed out that the current breakeven inflation rate of 2.2% is 0.2% higher than two months ago, and it looks like it will continue to rise, which the market never expected even by the end of last year. Of course, since the Great Recession era, many economists have continued to warn of high inflation, but the price spiral has never become a reality. However, this doesn't mean that it will never happen in the future. Once prices rise more than 3%, the stock market will be in danger, and if this rate reaches 4% or even 5%, the stock market will be in disaster. \"History has long proved that when inflation is high and volatile, the P/E of stocks is always at a very low level.\" Brightman explained, \"High inflation is undoubtedly bad news for stock prices.\" Under the soaring prices, the Fed will also be forced to rate hike, which will drain the bottom of the pot on economic growth, and this will undoubtedly suppress corporate profits.</p><p>In Brightman's view, the best outcome that can be hoped for right now is a breakeven inflation rate of 2.2%. The trouble is that even this 2.2% itself has exceeded the Fed's long-term ideal setting, and what's worse is that there is a strong upward trend behind this 2.2%. If this trend continues, the inflation rate will remain high until the alarm sounds over the whole stock market.</p><p>The second potential threat comes from rising real interest rates. In fact, this is more likely to materialize than the soaring inflation rate, and the reason is not complicated-the ten-year real interest rate is still a negative number. Brightman explained: \"Now, many people think that the valuation of U.S. stocks has not lost its rationality. One of the most important bases is to compare the earnings yield of stocks with the real interest rate.\" Once the real interest rate returns to a level close to the historical normal point, the valuation of stocks is almost doomed to shrink significantly. Currently, the long-term real interest rate is-0.7%, or the difference between a 1.5% yield and a 2.2% breakeven inflation rate (inflation expectations). It is not difficult to see that although Treasury Bond is safe, it offers returns that can't even beat inflation, so it is no wonder that investors are willing to offer super-high prices for its competitors-stocks, especially large American stocks.</p><p>However, more than two years ago, in January 2019, the long-term real interest rate used to be as high as 1.36% (the ten-year Treasury Bond yield was 3.06%, and the breakeven inflation rate was 1.7%), which was more than 2 percentage points higher than now. If real interest rates return to that level, it may well be enough to destroy the high P/E of US stocks.</p><p>If inflation just stays modest, it won't have much impact on the valuation of stocks. In the face of rising costs such as labor and raw materials, companies can only raise the prices of their products and services at the same time. In this way, their revenue growth can keep pace with inflation growth-in fact, it is the price changes of their products that determine the reading of the consumer price index. If real interest rates rise sufficiently, though, all else held constant, stocks will take a major hit. The real interest rate will push up the discount rate, which will shrink the real value of future profits of enterprises.</p><p>Based on the record closing point of 3,934 on February 12th, the overall P/E of the S&P 500 has now come to 28.2 based on nearly twelve months of GAAP earnings. If P/E remains at this level, investors are expected to earn only 16% of future profits over the next five years, while the remaining 84% will be counting on the longer future, mostly after 2031. Needless to say, those big tech companies in particular are saddled with super expectations and therefore more vulnerable to a direct hit in the event of a change in real interest rates. At present, the overall P/E given by investors to the 10 largest stocks on the U.S. stock market, from Apple to PayPal, is 46. This means that nearly 90% of their expected profits won't materialize until five years or more.</p><p>If these tech giants are excluded, the P/E of the rest of the market is 24, which is still hardly cheap. Assuming no fundamental change in the slow economic recovery, when real interest rates rise to 0% — 0.7 percentage points higher than they are now, but still much lower than 1.36% two years ago — the S&P 500 will fall more than 18% to 3,150, which is close to a bear market. If real interest rates rise to 0.5%, the index will plummet 25%.</p><p>Of course, it remains unknown whether real interest rates will recover to a particular height in the near future, or their historically long-term levels. In the long run, real interest rates tend to rise in line with gross domestic product growth, and this pattern remained in place until the second half of 2019, when the Fed had to take emergency action because of the threat of recession caused by Trump's tariff policy. The bull faction of U.S. stocks declared that the massive rebound in real interest rates would not become a reality, because the Fed, as the most critical player, would not sit back and watch this happen. \"The Fed can sit back and watch inflation reach 3%, but not make the decision to let the real borrowing rate reach 3%.\" Brightman explained. \"Therefore, they will buy longer-term bonds and keep the ten-year Treasury Bond yield stable in the range of 1.5% to 2.0%.\" This operation will keep the real interest rate at a level similar to the current level, still negative, and ensure that high stock yields are not threatened.</p><p>However, investors must still see that as the United States gradually emerges from the blockade stage and the economy continues to expand, the recent upward trend of real interest rates is likely to continue. In a study released in early February, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the real interest rate would rise from the current-0.7% to 0% by 2024, and continue to rise in the following years. At present, long-term interest rates are already higher than they were when this expectation was released. The point here is that, in fact, as long as the real interest rate goes slightly higher, it is enough to cause big tech stocks and even the S&P 500 index as a whole to suffer a heavy blow-after all, they have risen to such an expensive point, and naturally, the more expensive they are, the more fragile they are. Even if the real interest rate finally no longer returns to its former normal, but is anchored in some kind of \"new normal\", I'm afraid it will be difficult for U.S. stocks to survive this disaster unscathed.</p>","source":"txmg","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is the \"killer\" of the US bull market coming? 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Will the Fed sit back?\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">腾讯美股</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-02-26 21:21</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><i>If inflation just stays modest, it won't have much impact on the valuation of stocks. In the face of rising costs such as labor and raw materials, companies can only raise the prices of their products and services at the same time. In this way, their revenue growth can keep pace with inflation growth-in fact, it is the price changes of their products that determine the reading of the consumer price index. If real interest rates rise sufficiently, though, all else held constant, stocks will take a major hit. The real interest rate will push up the discount rate, which will shrink the real value of future profits of enterprises.</i><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/63ef8eb3a8d7b23c2e3c6e7df0b59de7\" tg-width=\"1080\" tg-height=\"718\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">During the trading day on Thursday, February 25th, the yield of long-term bonds suddenly soared, which scared the participants in the US stock market into a cold sweat and gave them an unprecedented clear understanding-in 2021, the number one keyword in the market was interest rate. This is the root cause of the selloff in tech stocks as U.S. stocks plunged across the board on Thursday.</p><p>Suddenly, the 10-year Treasury Bond yield, the bond market index, soared from 1.389% at Wednesday's close to 1.565% that afternoon, and finally closed at 1.518%, comparable to last February's level before the outbreak. In fact, for quite some time, the trend of rising long-term interest rates has already existed, but the market has somewhat chosen to ignore it. However, by Thursday, this rush finally made everyone lose their breath and began to think that maybe this is just the beginning of some big event. In the end, the Dow closed 1.75% lower on the same day, the S&P 500 closed 2.45% lower, and the Nasdaq, a heavy technology stock, lost 3.52%.</p><p>So far, rising long-term interest rates have not caused much substantial trouble. However, if this surge forms a long-term trend, the high valuations of large U.S. stocks, especially those of big tech stocks, will suffer a severe hit-and, horribly, the probability of a trend looks increasing. \"The key question at the moment is whether we have reached that turning point.\" Chris Brightman, chief investment officer of Research Affiliates, which monitors the strategies of many mutual funds and ETFs with a total size of $145 billion, analyzed, \"Until not long ago, interest rates were moving from below the Fed's target to reaching the Fed's target. Now, they have reached the target (based on inflation expectations), but we see that the upward momentum is still strong. If this momentum persists, interest rates will far exceed the Fed's target.\"</p><p>Such developments are likely to derail the current bull market.</p><p>From the end of 2019 to mid-April 2020, at the height of the Covid recession, the ten-year Treasury Bond yield (what the average person calls the long-term interest rate) shrank all the way from 1.88% to 0.58%. After that, the yield began to rebound slightly and continuously, but even so, by the end of 2020, it was still at a super low of 0.93%. After the beginning of 2021, the small march of yield continued, and few investors paid attention to it. It was not until February 25th that the major psychological barrier of 1.5% was broken, and investors woke up from a dream (the analysis later in this article is all based on the premise that the yield is 1.5%). Needless to say, the determination of interest rates is largely based on inflation expectations. Currently, the consumer price index is growing at an annual rate of 1.4%, but long-term bond yields are forward-looking — they reflect not current inflation realities, but inflation expectations over the next decade.</p><p>Here's a key piece of data, the breakeven inflation rate (EBI), which reflects investors' overall expectations for the consumer price index over the next decade. What worries the market at present is largely the trajectory of the breakeven inflation rate. From last May to now, it has fully doubled from 1.1% to 2.2%.</p><p>The 10-year Treasury Bond yield has risen from about 0.60% last summer to 1.5% now, a development that should be interpreted from two perspectives. First, it is the change in the inflation outlook, which is clearly reflected in the breakeven inflation rate. Second, it is the change in interest rates adjusted for inflation, the so-called \"real interest rate\". Both of these have powerful influence on future stock prices. More than half of the aforementioned 0.9% increase in the ten-year Treasury Bond yield is the progress of the first few weeks of 2021. So, how much role did the two factors play in this increase?</p><p>The most significant factor so far has been the sharp rise in inflation expectations. Since July last year, the breakeven inflation rate has soared from 1.6% to 2.2% now, a 0.6% increase that accounts for two-thirds of the 0.9% increase in the 10-year Treasury Bond yield. The other 0.3% comes from real interest rates (from negative to less negative).</p><p>Inflation expectations have been high and real interest rates have risen in a short period of time, both of which are bad news for stocks. Although at present, the consumer price index is only 1.4%, this figure will continue to rise in the future, which will cause trouble sooner or later. During Wednesday's congressional hearing, Fed President Powell also predicted that inflation would fall below the U.S. central bank's 2% target until 2023. However, if the market break-even inflation rate is accurate, it is likely that inflationary pressures will appear before then. In other words, if the average inflation rate in the next decade is 2.2%, and the inflation rate in the first three years is below 2%, then it is obvious that the inflation rate will be much higher than 2.2% in the next seven years.</p><p>It should be pointed out that the current breakeven inflation rate of 2.2% is 0.2% higher than two months ago, and it looks like it will continue to rise, which the market never expected even by the end of last year. Of course, since the Great Recession era, many economists have continued to warn of high inflation, but the price spiral has never become a reality. However, this doesn't mean that it will never happen in the future. Once prices rise more than 3%, the stock market will be in danger, and if this rate reaches 4% or even 5%, the stock market will be in disaster. \"History has long proved that when inflation is high and volatile, the P/E of stocks is always at a very low level.\" Brightman explained, \"High inflation is undoubtedly bad news for stock prices.\" Under the soaring prices, the Fed will also be forced to rate hike, which will drain the bottom of the pot on economic growth, and this will undoubtedly suppress corporate profits.</p><p>In Brightman's view, the best outcome that can be hoped for right now is a breakeven inflation rate of 2.2%. The trouble is that even this 2.2% itself has exceeded the Fed's long-term ideal setting, and what's worse is that there is a strong upward trend behind this 2.2%. If this trend continues, the inflation rate will remain high until the alarm sounds over the whole stock market.</p><p>The second potential threat comes from rising real interest rates. In fact, this is more likely to materialize than the soaring inflation rate, and the reason is not complicated-the ten-year real interest rate is still a negative number. Brightman explained: \"Now, many people think that the valuation of U.S. stocks has not lost its rationality. One of the most important bases is to compare the earnings yield of stocks with the real interest rate.\" Once the real interest rate returns to a level close to the historical normal point, the valuation of stocks is almost doomed to shrink significantly. Currently, the long-term real interest rate is-0.7%, or the difference between a 1.5% yield and a 2.2% breakeven inflation rate (inflation expectations). It is not difficult to see that although Treasury Bond is safe, it offers returns that can't even beat inflation, so it is no wonder that investors are willing to offer super-high prices for its competitors-stocks, especially large American stocks.</p><p>However, more than two years ago, in January 2019, the long-term real interest rate used to be as high as 1.36% (the ten-year Treasury Bond yield was 3.06%, and the breakeven inflation rate was 1.7%), which was more than 2 percentage points higher than now. If real interest rates return to that level, it may well be enough to destroy the high P/E of US stocks.</p><p>If inflation just stays modest, it won't have much impact on the valuation of stocks. In the face of rising costs such as labor and raw materials, companies can only raise the prices of their products and services at the same time. In this way, their revenue growth can keep pace with inflation growth-in fact, it is the price changes of their products that determine the reading of the consumer price index. If real interest rates rise sufficiently, though, all else held constant, stocks will take a major hit. The real interest rate will push up the discount rate, which will shrink the real value of future profits of enterprises.</p><p>Based on the record closing point of 3,934 on February 12th, the overall P/E of the S&P 500 has now come to 28.2 based on nearly twelve months of GAAP earnings. If P/E remains at this level, investors are expected to earn only 16% of future profits over the next five years, while the remaining 84% will be counting on the longer future, mostly after 2031. Needless to say, those big tech companies in particular are saddled with super expectations and therefore more vulnerable to a direct hit in the event of a change in real interest rates. At present, the overall P/E given by investors to the 10 largest stocks on the U.S. stock market, from Apple to PayPal, is 46. This means that nearly 90% of their expected profits won't materialize until five years or more.</p><p>If these tech giants are excluded, the P/E of the rest of the market is 24, which is still hardly cheap. Assuming no fundamental change in the slow economic recovery, when real interest rates rise to 0% — 0.7 percentage points higher than they are now, but still much lower than 1.36% two years ago — the S&P 500 will fall more than 18% to 3,150, which is close to a bear market. If real interest rates rise to 0.5%, the index will plummet 25%.</p><p>Of course, it remains unknown whether real interest rates will recover to a particular height in the near future, or their historically long-term levels. In the long run, real interest rates tend to rise in line with gross domestic product growth, and this pattern remained in place until the second half of 2019, when the Fed had to take emergency action because of the threat of recession caused by Trump's tariff policy. The bull faction of U.S. stocks declared that the massive rebound in real interest rates would not become a reality, because the Fed, as the most critical player, would not sit back and watch this happen. \"The Fed can sit back and watch inflation reach 3%, but not make the decision to let the real borrowing rate reach 3%.\" Brightman explained. \"Therefore, they will buy longer-term bonds and keep the ten-year Treasury Bond yield stable in the range of 1.5% to 2.0%.\" This operation will keep the real interest rate at a level similar to the current level, still negative, and ensure that high stock yields are not threatened.</p><p>However, investors must still see that as the United States gradually emerges from the blockade stage and the economy continues to expand, the recent upward trend of real interest rates is likely to continue. In a study released in early February, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the real interest rate would rise from the current-0.7% to 0% by 2024, and continue to rise in the following years. At present, long-term interest rates are already higher than they were when this expectation was released. The point here is that, in fact, as long as the real interest rate goes slightly higher, it is enough to cause big tech stocks and even the S&P 500 index as a whole to suffer a heavy blow-after all, they have risen to such an expensive point, and naturally, the more expensive they are, the more fragile they are. 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