{"id":41287,"date":"2023-07-27T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/its-a-great-great-time-for-bulls-soft-landing-views-solidify-in-u-s-stock-market\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:27:44","slug":"its-a-great-great-time-for-bulls-soft-landing-views-solidify-in-u-s-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=41287","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a great, great time for bulls\u2019: Soft-landing views solidify in U.S. stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After more than a year of back-and-forth debate over whether the world\u2019s largest economy could slip into a downturn, investors are settling into the surprising conclusion that the U.S. can manage to dodge one. <\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s stronger-than-expected second-quarter GDP report \u2014 accompanied by a decline in jobless benefit claims last week, a jump in durable-goods orders in June, and the real-estate industry\u2019s declaration that the housing recession is over \u2014 is translating into more optimism than previously seen during the current cycle. The data comes after the annual headline rate of inflation from the June consumer price index came in two weeks ago at 3%, down from a 9.1% peak a year earlier.<\/p>\n

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\n moved mostly higher in response to the data batch, yet slipped as 10- and 30-year Treasury yields jumped above 4% on a report about the Bank of Japan \u2014 leaving all three major indexes finishing lower and snapping the win streak of Dow industrials. Even after the Federal Reserve pushed interest rates to a 22-year high of between 5.25%-5.5% on Wednesday, investors seemed to be increasingly on board with Chairman Jerome Powell\u2019s view that \u201cwe do have a shot\u201d at a soft landing for the economy, albeit with the caveats that \u201cit is a long way from assured\u201d and \u201cwe have a lot left to go to see that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read:<\/strong> Fed no longer foresees a U.S. recession \u2014 and other things we learned from Powell\u2019s press conference<\/p>\n

\u201cThe math is now soft landing or no landing, at least that\u2019s how the markets are going to treat this,\u201d said Phil Toews, chief executive of Toews Asset Management in New York. \u201cIt feels like just a great, great time for bulls. The combination of an unexpectedly benign CPI number, a good GDP report, still-strong employment, and a strong consumer is adding up to a realization that we may not have a recession. That is the most important \u2018new\u2019 news and takes the key bear argument off the table.\u201d <\/p>\n

Many in financial markets began the year assuming that the Fed\u2019s ongoing war on inflation and rapid series of interest rate hikes since March 2022 would drive the economy into a recession, technically defined as a significant decline in activity that lasts for more than a few months. Instead, the U.S. proved to be surprisingly resilient, despite more than five full percentage points of Fed rate hikes, the most recent of which was delivered on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

One of the most historically accurate strategies for identifying primary trends in stocks, known as the Dow Theory, has been pointing toward the likelihood of a broadening bull market. Meanwhile, Carol Schleif, chief investment officer of the BMO Family Office in Minneapolis and Chicago-based economists at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. said Thursday\u2019s GDP report is stoking optimism about a soft landing scenario in the U.S., even after the fastest interest-rate increases in four decades. <\/p>\n

On the flip side of the debate,\u00a0Ali Hassan, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management in Santa Fe, N.M., with $42 billion in client assets as of June, said he still fears that the Fed will hike the U.S. into a downturn.<\/p>\n

Read: <\/strong>\u2018No chance we\u2019re having a soft landing\u2019: Stock-market strategist David Rosenberg gives Powell\u2019s Fed no credit \u2014 and no mercy<\/p>\n

Toews of Toews Asset Management said in a phone interview on Thursday that \u201cat the very least you had to be concerned about the possibility of a recession and we certainly were. In April, once we got beyond the regional-bank issues, we saw the need to make sure that customers got equity allocation. Everyone is waking up to the reality of a 20% S&P 500 gain year-to-date [as of early Thursday] versus a 5% T-bill rate, and trillions of dollars that have been cautious now may be deciding to come into the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

The market\u2019s optimism is reflected in the most recent reading of the American Association of Individual Investors, which showed that\u00a0bullish\u00a0sentiment among individual investors reached 44.9% for the week that ended on Wednesday, above the historical average\u00a0of 37.5%. It\u2019s the eighth straight week in which optimism has been above average. However, Brent Schutte, chief investment officer of the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co., notes that \u201cabnormally high readings such as these often precede negative equity returns over the following 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

For William Davies, global chief investment officer at Boston-based Columbia Threadneedle\u00a0Investments, which managed $617 billion in assets as of June, the question of whether there will or won\u2019t be a U.S. recession remains unsettled. Via phone on Thursday from London, he said \u201cthe debate is still open\u201d and \u201cthe jury is still out, given the tightness of the labor market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is, \u2018can inflation go back up?\u2019 We expect that it\u2019s not going to come down as quickly as people think, unless the unemployment rate rises,\u201d Davies told MarketWatch. Columbia Threadneedle is in the camp that expects the fed funds rate target to reach 5.5%-5.75% and stay there well into 2024, he said, adding that his firm favors high-quality investment-grade credit and thinks equities \u201ccan probably go higher\u201d given more resilient earnings than some had feared.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur view is we might get a recession or lackluster growth, but it really doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Davies said. \u201cThe big thing is that we don\u2019t get a sharp recession like we did in 2020 or the early 2000s. As we go through the year, the data has been stronger than many had feared and the view that there might even be a mild recession may have been too pessimistic. Maybe we get just slowish growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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