Weekly Market Outlook September 16, 2018
“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. You need to keep raw, irrational emotion under control.” – Charlie Munger
Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland – The Fed wants to fuel inflation for a variety of reasons. Moreover, when the Fed wants something, it happens. If inflation takes shape, the Fed will eventually intervene with further rate hikes to allow the economy to cool down and reset. The market could eventually turn into a bear market. We are still far from this end station. After all, there is hardly any inflation, and the economy is running correctly. A point of attention is that valuations are disproportionate in different aspects.
Investors have been busy lately about peripheral phenomena. The impact of threatening trade wars and shifting currencies is limited for the time being. It will probably take months before there is clarity about the tense relations between the economic power blocks. The fact that the S&P 500 is consolidating at such a high level is in our view a powerful (upward) signal.
In the coming week, the agenda will be mainly about interest rates.
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