Yardeni QuickTakes (Page 39)

The Bond Vigilantes Are Fighting The Fed

Dec 12, 2024 3 min read paid

After today's PPI, we won't be surprised if Fed officials plant a story in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend titled something like "Fed Officials Might Vote To Pause Rate Cutting Following Hot Inflation Data." The current consensus seems to be that the Fed will cut the federal funds rate (FFR) by 25bps on December 18. But it might be a "hawkish

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Stay Ahead Of The Pack With QuickTakes

Dec 12, 2024 1 min read

We were among the only forecasters who predicted no recession over the past three years. We also predicted that inflation would fall sharply since the summer of 2022. We called the start of the current bull market in October 2022. At the beginning of this year and last year, we were ahead of the pack too and raised our S&P 500 targets along the way, which kept us

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Will Rate Cuts Continue Unless Inflation Behaves Badly?

Dec 11, 2024 4 min read

Today's CPI report for November matched expectations. The CME FedWatch tool shows 95% odds that the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate (FFR) by 25bps next week, and the Fed doesn't like to surprise market expectations. The Nasdaq front-ran our forecast to reach 20,000 by mid-2025 by reaching that milestone today (chart). Now we are aiming for 22,000 by mid-2025. Our yearend target

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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 12/11/24

Dec 11, 2024 1 min read paid

As Taylor Swift ends her Eras tour, Dr Ed starts his Roaring 2020s Tour to meet with our accounts. Last week in Texas, they shared their concerns about the “known unknowns,” as the new administration represents a significant policy regime change. On balance, Trump 2.0 should perpetuate our Roaring 2020s scenario. Fortunately, the US economy and financial markets are resilient and tend to outperform globally whomever occupies the White

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Supercomputers vs Supercore Inflation

Dec 10, 2024 3 min read paid

The stock market appeared calm ahead of tomorrow's November CPI report, which is likely to show that supercore inflation (i.e., CPI services less shelter) remains stuck around 4.5% (chart). However, there was plenty of action just below the surface of the stock market's calm. Oracle dropped 6.7% on disappointing earnings results. Google rallied 5.3% on a new state-of-the-art chip "Willow,"

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Another Record Earnings Reporting Season

Dec 9, 2024 2 min read paid

Chocolate and chips were on today's stock market menu. Hershey's stock price soared on a report of another Mondelez takeover attempt. However, the market was weighed down by Nvidia shares, which fell after China opened an investigation over possible violation of antimonopoly law. There was some profit-taking in Tesla during the day following the huge run-up since Election Day. But the stock closed slightly higher. Meanwhile,

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The Economic Week Ahead: December 9-13

Dec 8, 2024 3 min read paid

The economic week ahead is chockful of inflation updates. We're expecting stickier inflation readings that should ruffle the feathers of the Fed's doves. The FOMC is in a blackout period ahead of its December 17-18 meeting, meaning FOMC members won't be able to comment publicly. If the CPI news changes their minds about cutting the federal funds rate (FFR), they'll have to

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MARKET CALL: Will Trump 2.0 Be Volatile?

Dec 8, 2024 3 min read paid

In recent conversations with our accounts, many of them said that the financial markets may be more volatile under Trump 2.0 over the next six months than they were over the past 12-18 months. In Thursday's QT, we observed that contrarian indicators are showing that there are too many bulls, which is bearish. A couple of prominent and vocal permabears recently conceded that the bulls have been

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DEEP DIVE: Does the Stock Market Have a Valuation Problem?

Dec 6, 2024 6 min read paid

Strategy I: Valuation & Growth. As we’ve seen over the past three years, stock investors don’t like recessions, not even the no-shows. There was much anxiety about an imminent recession from January 3, 2022 through October 12, 2022, as reflected by the 25.4% drop in the S&P 500 over that period. Over that period, industry analysts confirmed investors’ fears by lowering their consensus expectations for

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Contrarian Indicators Showing Too Many Bulls

Dec 5, 2024 3 min read

We were very bullish at the start of this year with a Street-high year-end price target of 5400 for the S&P 500. That level was surpassed on June 12. We weren't bullish enough as the stampeding bulls left hoof marks on our backs. So we raised our target to 5800 on July 10, which was surpassed on November 6 (chart). So we raised our target to

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Let The Good Times Roll

Dec 5, 2024 2 min read paid

Salesforce beat Q3 earnings expectations today, but that's not what drove the company's shares 11% higher. CEO Marc Benioff did that by touting the company's AI-powered chatbots on today's quarterly earnings call. He sparked renewed AI optimism that lifted the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to new record highs. AI differs from the dotcom mania of the late 1990s. It is

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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 12/4/24

Dec 4, 2024 1 min read paid

Today, Dr. Ed examines Baby Boomer economics. The Boomers are sitting on sizable nest eggs that continue to expand along with home prices and stock prices. They are starting to spend more of their net worth as they retire. Many Boomers are not empty nesters but have grown children living at home and are providing them with financial support. The population bulge that has had outsized effects on markets in

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