LWM Blog

Consolidation typically starts now and ends in May

MAIN POINTS

In the first half of 2020, the risk for a political overhang to the stock market is high.

Near-term risks continue to include earnings expectations and the trade war with China.

Once a presidential winner has been identified, the market has ...

Economic growth and stock returns have been weaker one year later

MAIN POINTS

An inverted yield curve is not a sufficient condition for a U.S. recession.

Tight financial conditions and/or weakness in the services sector would increase recession risk more meaningfully.

Inversion has been followed by inc...

Stocks and bonds gain when Fed policy becomes more accomodative.

Main Points:

• U.S. and international stock prices rise after a first Fed rate cut. Gains are strongest when there is no U.S. recession.

• Bond prices consistently rise prior to an initial rate cut, but are stagnant afterwards.

• Rate cuts can h...

Multiple stock market corrections per year are normal.

Main Points

Global trade war fears drove a 6.6% correction in the S&P 500 in May.

Multiple stock market corrections per year are normal.

Corrections provide opportunities to buy investments at attractive valuations.

At 90 million strong, millennials are now the largest generation in the U.S.

Using the broadest generation definition of millennials, people born in the 1980s and 1990s, there are nearly 90 million millennials. That is nearly seven million more than those born in the 1960s and 1970s.