The Fed threw some gasoline on the inventory dump fireplace final week. With that shares are exploring new lows with the 200 day shifting common in play at 4,195 for the S&P 500 (SPY). Is it time to purchase shares…or run for canopy? 43 yr funding veteran Steve Reitmeister shares his newest insights together with how low he expects shares to go. Plus info on his high 11 picks for at the moment’s risky market. Learn on beneath for extra.
Shares have been floating round in a well-defined buying and selling vary coming into the September 20th Fed announcement. Sadly, the elevated readability on what they imply by “increased charges for longer” has the market heading to new lows.
This has rattled the cage of some buyers evoking questions like:
Is the bull market already over?
How low will we go earlier than shares bounce once more?
We are going to reply all that and extra on this week’s Reitmeister Whole Return commentary.
Market Commentary
4,600 on the S&P 500 (SPY) was at all times too excessive for this market. Very true when it was unclear when the Fed could be executed tapping the brakes of the economic system. Thus, it made sense for buyers to take some cash off the desk in early August resulting in a pure pullback.
Subsequent up the Fed made it clearer what “increased charges for longer” meant at their 9/20 press convention. This included the September launch of their Abstract of Financial Projections which included perception that Fed officers now count on charges to be round 5.1% on the finish of 2024…a lot increased than the beforehand acknowledged stage.
This has led to an enormous Threat Off adjustment because it does marginally enhance the percentages of recession (and bear market). However extra succinctly it implies that bonds and curiosity bearing securities have change into extra engaging relative to shares due to increased yields. Or to place it one other manner:
Charges Up > Shares Down
Now let’s pull again to the massive image. Even after this realignment of funds, buyers have to understand that the danger of recession remains to be very low. The Fed is solely selecting a path of evenly tapping on the brakes over an extended time frame to extend the percentages of sentimental touchdown.
It is a higher plan than violently slamming on the brakes with MUCH increased charges within the brief run which will increase the chance of an financial wreck in the long term.
This all exhibits up loud and clear in how they adjusted their financial forecast for 2024 increased to +1.5% GDP progress. Not stellar when 2.7% is the long run common. Nevertheless, it positive is best than the 1.1% they beforehand projected.
Now let’s think about another GDP indicators.
Goldman Sachs is staying put at 15% odds of recession within the coming yr. Observe that economists are instructed to start out at 10% chance regardless of how wonderful the economic system appears to be like. So this implies their groups sees little or no cause for concern.
Subsequent we’ll examine in with the famed GDPNow mannequin from the Atlanta Fed. That’s shockingly excessive at +4.9% for Q3. That’s simply primarily based on 1 month of knowledge up to now and certain will come down a notch when the early October studies are launched like ISM Manufacturing and Retail Gross sales.
Seemingly the GDPNow mannequin will fall in keeping with the Blue Chip Economist panel that proper now stands at +2.9% for Q3. Final quarter the panel forecast was a lot nearer to the mark.
Whenever you boil it down it’s onerous to see that the percentages of recession are that top. And thus onerous to change into bearish…and thus onerous to see shares falling a lot additional. Will focus on extra about that within the subsequent part…
Value Motion & Buying and selling Plan
Shifting Averages: 50 Day (yellow), 100 Day (orange), 200 Day (purple)
We’ve got been underneath the 100 day for a couple of classes. So, it implies that the 200 day shifting common @ 4,195 is now in play (about 2% beneath Thursday’s shut).
I did not assume that was possible per week in the past. However the Fed’s up to date forecast implies that the extremely anticipated reducing of charges, and reacceleration for the economic system, are a bit additional down the highway.
It would not finish the bull market story. Fairly it simply delays when it is going to actually present up in improved earnings progress, which is the prime catalyst for increased share costs.
So sure, the percentages of testing the 200 day shifting common has elevated. That may be a wholesome correction for the general market after being close to 4,600 again in July.
That correction will shake out the complacency that obtained constructed up throughout the overextend 5 month rally from March til August. This creates a wholesome reset for shares bringing them right down to a greater valuation level that can have buyers extra readily hitting the purchase button as soon as once more. My guess is that can be on the 200 day shifting common or barely above.
This new info on the Fed additionally has me taking again my earlier prediction of 4,850 for yr finish S&P 500 stage. That’s asking an excessive amount of from the market presently.
Fairly, I feel a contact of Santa Claus rally, plus elevated readability from the Fed at their subsequent 2 conferences, will give buyers the boldness to bid shares again as much as 4,500 to 4,600 by yr finish. After which be primed to make new highs above 5,000 subsequent yr.
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SPY shares have been unchanged in after-hours buying and selling Tuesday. 12 months-to-date, SPY has gained 12.60%, versus a % rise within the benchmark S&P 500 index throughout the identical interval.
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