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Bill O’Neill at UBS Wealth Mgmt said the story is still the combination of easy money policies and expectations of growth into 2014 and that growth is on the horizon.
The Investment Companies Institute reports individual investors gave $30 billion to managers in 2013, the first net inflows into equity funds since 2006, and versus $400 billion outflows in the previous 4 years.
The average of 19 forecasts expects the S&P 500 to fall 4 percent in December to 1,733. December has been the second-best month for US equity returns in data from 1928, with an average return of 1.5 percent, versus the monthly mean of 0.6 percent.
The S&P 500 trades at 16.3 times projected earnings.
Michael O’Sullivan at Credit Suisse Private Banking & Wealth Mgmt said the economy looks much, much more healthy.
4 of 5 investors, traders and analysts expect the Fed to taper in March or later, with just 5 percent looking for a move this month.
Goldman Sachs expects gold at $1,110 and Brent at $105 in 12 months.
Barclays sees gluts in aluminum, copper, nickel and zinc this year or next, and says copper will average $6,500 in Q4 2014.
The US is meeting 86 percent of its own energy needs, the most since 1986, and the International Energy Agency predicts the US will overtake Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by 2015.
The median economist expects the 10-yr Treasury yield to rise to 3.1 percent by mid-2014.
John Rutledge at Safanad expects many months in which the Fed is the dominant story, and said the tapering story worries investors as to whether the Fed is there to sop up Treasury issues.
The median economist expects the euro to weaken to $1.30 against the dollar by mid-2014, and the yen to weaken to 104.
Benoit Anne at Societe Generale sees no appetite to invest into emerging markets as fear of the Fed prevails and investors are reluctant to take on risk as year-end looms.
Jim McDonald at Northern Trust said economic momentum and monetary policy momentum are better in the developed economies, while there is too much uncertainty in the emerging world as reflected in their stocks.
Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-01/stocks-triumph-third-month-in-best-run-since-2009-as-gold-sinks.html
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