¹ pdf version Contractions (recessions) start at
the peak of a business cycle and end at the trough.
I don't quibble with the theory, but, in practice, the strategy seems to find stocks at
the peak of the business cycle (see my summary of Mauboussin in ROIC and reversion to the mean: Part 1, 2 and 3).
Not exact matches
The paper finds that junk bonds are, in fact, a very good indicator for forecasting economic
peaks if not troughs, effectively warning ahead
of eight
of the last ten
peaks in the
business cycle.
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Determining the
peak federal funds rate over the
cycle is the key to estimating the level
of mortgage rates at the end
of the current
business cycle.
These rapid changes in the shape
of the yield curve marked the
peak in the
business cycle.
The five stages
of the
business cycle are growth (expansion),
peak, recession (contraction), trough and recovery.
The S&P 500 was up over 300 points from the February and March lows largely in anticipation
of «earnings season» but in the past two weeks, both the S&P and the NASDAQ have been hobbled by a «sell the news» behavioral quirk, which, for me, is a sure - fire signal that bigger investors are viewing Q1 / 2018 as the
peak for the
business cycle.
A
business cycle consists
of a repetition
of four phases — expansion,
peak, contraction, and trough — that is often called the boom - and - bust
cycle.
An economic boom is the expansion and
peak phase
of the
business cycle.
Corporations have been languishing to sell their goods and services since the
business cycle peaked in July
of 2014.
10 years generally picks up a
business cycle, and thus you get sort
of peak and trough earnings over that time frame.
A very smart friend
of mine points out: «If you are only looking at trailing twelve month numbers on earnings growth and ROIC, then you can't distinguish from a company being truly high quality or just at a
peak in its
business cycle.»
Meanwhile, commute times increased 18 % across both the San Francisco and San Jose metros, also ranked No. 1
of 50 metros, on top
of already high levels
of congestion from the
peak of the last
business cycle.
These recurring ups and downs in economic activity (or market /
business cycles) are made up
of several years
of peaks, recessions, troughs and eventually a recovery phase.