12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #204 – 4/18/23
by Robert Holman | www.DefensiveAdvisor.com
STOCK MARKET RATING … 3.5 (0-4 bearish, 5 neutral, 6-10 bullish). Expect weekly volatility, in this case, market going down for a week or two, then up for a week or two.
I do not foresee a financial crisis, at this time, but one has to wonder, are bad commercial real estate loans - commercial real estate is already in a recession – going to precipitate the next banking event?
Not much to say again this week. February was down 3 weeks out of four. March was up 3 weeks out of four. So far, April had been more-or-less sideways.
Atlanta Fed Chair Bostic on CNBC talked about inflation being sticky, and that the rate hikes done so far may only be enough to get inflation down to 3.5%. He sees one more rate hike then a pause “for quite some time” – AND a continuing need to remove excess Fed liquidity from the system, at least $1.5T dollars off balance sheet (i.e., selling government securities held by the Fed; selling which continues to put upward pressure on rates).
Both of those are my view, and I believe the Fed will do what it takes to get inflation down to 2%. I would not be surprised to see the market rally when the Fed pauses. But, a counteraction would be a Fed announcement of a plan to start reducing the size of the Fed balance sheet.
Just a short note on my investment philosophy --- I don’t try to PREDICT the FUTURE trends; I try to ADJUST RISK to the CURRENT trends. That’s a significant difference.
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Excelsior Divitiae. Learn from the Bible: Deuteronomy 10:14 and Psalm 24:1 (taken together), Genesis 12:2-3, Proverbs 15:22, 21:5, 22:3 and 27:12, Ecclesiastes 8:7, Joshua 1:9, Proverbs 3:5-6, Ephesians 1:17, Jeremiah 29:11, 1Chronicles 29:11-13, and 1 Chronicles 12:32. I recommend you read them in this order.
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