As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks remained in the most negative 0.5 % of all historical observations, and was characterized by rich valuations, unfavorable market action, and a variety of hostile «Aunt Minnies» that are associated with
poor subsequent returns.
Not exact matches
Only those who are historically uninformed believe that valuations have no relationship to
subsequent returns, or place their faith in scraps of analytical debris like the «Fed Model» without examining their
poor correlation with actual
subsequent market
returns.
We emphasize «historically reliable» because as in every bubble, there are numerous popular measures with quite
poor correlation with actual
subsequent market
returns that Wall Street can offer to convince investors that valuations are just fine.
It is more accurate to argue that following
poor 10 - year
returns, provided that valuations are depressed based on normalized earnings and the economy is likely to grow at double digits rates of nominal growth - investors can probably anticipate higher
subsequent long - term
returns.
This data suggests that we should modify the assumption that
poor past
returns, in and of themselves, reliably lead to strong
subsequent long - term
returns.