Sentences with phrase «pace than stock prices»

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We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

Trailing earnings for the S&P 500 ended 2017 at nearly 22x, significantly above the 10 - year average multiple of 15.7 x. Stocks have been expensive for some time, and while earnings have been robust of late, price advances have more than kept pace.

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.