Zach Jonson, Chief Investment Officer at Stack Financial Management, says that inflationary pressures that haven't been seen in over 40 years and the tightest labor market in history mean that, "This is not your father's market," and investors need to go old school and get more defensive.
Zach Jonson, Chief Investment Officer at Stack Financial Management, discusses the information being conveyed by market internals today, including some of the technical damage he sees in market breadth and speculative investor sentiment, despite an S&P 500 Index that is pushing up against its all-time high.
Zach Jonson, Chief Investment Officer at Stack Financial Management, says that the market is reaching all-time highs with 'weaker and weaker breadth and more narrow selectivity,' and that this dichotomy indicates that the risk of a correction is rising.
Zach Jonson, Chief Investment Officer at Stack Financial Management, says that the Standard and Poor’s 500 is broken, failing to represent the broad domestic economy, which is one big reason why the market performed well while the economy was suffering in 2020.
Zach Jonson, Chief Investment Officer at Stack Financial Management, said that investors and the stock market are being pulled in good and bad directions by an ‘economic and emotional tug-of-war caused by the trade war with China, changes in interest-rate policies, the news cycle and more.
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