For two years, the stock market has been largely able to ignore the lived reality of Americans during the pandemic — the mounting coronavirus cases, the loss of lives and livelihoods, the lockdowns — because of underlying policies that kept it buoyant.
Investors can now say goodbye to all that.
Come 2022, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates to fight inflation, and government programs meant to stimulate the economy during the pandemic will have ended. Those policy changes will cause investors, businesses and consumers to behave differently, and their actions will eventually take some air out of the stock market, according to analysts.
“It’s going to be the first time in almost two years that the Fed’s incremental decisions might force investors or consumers to become a little more wary,” said David Schawel, the chief investment officer at Family Management Corporation, a wealth management firm in New York.
At year’s end, the overarching view on Wall Street is that 2022 will be a bumpier ride, if not quite a roller coaster. In a recent note, analysts at J.P. Morgan said that they expected inflation — currently at 6.8 percent — to “normalize” in coming months, and that the surge of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was unlikely to lower economic growth.
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You should really follow @AnthonyBSanders who comes up with some great graphs to compare critical issues in the US economy: pic.twitter.com/z7Fqcmho3P
— S.J. Ware (@Waresj1) December 31, 2021
This is the longest number of days an S&P 500 new high has NOT been confirmed by either the NYSE composite or the Nasdaq in 2021.
The last two times the S&P imploded. The big rollover being October 2018.
This market is as fake as the people who believe in it. pic.twitter.com/BwQa7LLgm0
— Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 31, 2021
World’s biggest furniture brand IKEA raises prices 9%
“Unfortunately now, for the first time since higher costs have begun to affect the global economy, we have to pass parts of those increased costs onto our customers,” Retail Operations Manager Tolga Öncü said.
www.cnbc.com/2021/12/31/furniture-giant-ikea-raises-prices-as-supply-chain-woes-persist.html