When the Labor Department revealed that the CPI rose 8.2% in September, almost anyone could have predicted that stocks would plummet the next day. And while they did exactly that…
Tag: Market Predictions
Blackstone’s Ten Surprises Of 2022
Continuing Blackstone’s tradition of releasing their list of 10 surprises for the upcoming year, Vice Chairman Byron Wien and Chief Investment Strategist Joe Zidle issued their list on January 3rd…
Best Bets for 2022: Small Caps And Global Banks
Looking ahead to 2022, two investment strategists at trillion-dollar firms are betting on U.S. small cap stocks and global banks. The remarks, which came at the Forbes/SHOOK conference in Chicago,…
How Well Have Beta’s Predictions Aged?
The 1980’s were a critical era for gauging the capital asset pricing model’s—or CAPM’s—validity, posits a post on the CFA Institute Blog. Greater data access and expanded computing power in…
The Only 2021 Market Prediction You Should Not Ignore
While it is typical at the end of any year for “very smart people with access to the best data and vast resources at their disposal” to make predictions about…
The Stock Market Will Predict 2020 Presidential Winner
A study by LPL Financial shows that if the S&P 500 is up three months before election day, the incumbent party nearly always wins. This according to an article in…
Listening to “Armageddonist” Predictions Can Prove Costly
A recent MarketWatch article shares the findings of one industry executive who had reportedly had enough of end-of-days-like market predictions and did some calculations of his own. Michael Cembalest, chairman…
Gundlach Expects Trouble for U.S. Equities
In an interview with Finanz und Wirtschaft, DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach expressed concern for U.S. equities as a result of the levels of government and corporate debt, arguing that investors…
Think Twice When You Hear Predictions of a Market "Crash"
The “c” word (i.e. crash) is “awfully good at grabbing investor’s attention,” but there’s no way to know when it will arrive, according to a recent article in The Wall…
Were Market Gurus Accurate about Recent Predictions?
At the start of 2019, BAM Alliance director of research Larry Swedroe outlined a list of predictions–made by various market experts and investors–to identify a consensus of “sure things” that…