‘Most Hated’ Market Rally Officially Underway, Says Fundsrat’s Tom Lee – Here’s His Outlook
Fundstrat’s head of analysis Tom Lee says the inventory market is within the midst of a “most hated” rally, with skeptical buyers clinging to the explanation why the market ought to fall.
In a brand new update, Lee says he believes the present surge, which lifted the S&P 500 by 17% from current lows to inside 3% of an all-time excessive, displays a strong however underappreciated rally.
“A part of this [bearish sentiment] is comprehensible. We had a black swan occasion on post-tariff liberation day, which means an surprising occasion, and we had a 20% fall in shares in a really quick time period.”
As for what’s coming subsequent, Lee factors to historic patterns the place doubt after a market dump led to main rallies.
“When shares started to rally after March of 2020, many fund managers mentioned we’re nonetheless in a bear market.
And recall within the fall of 2022 after the markets made its low in October of 2022, a variety of buyers had been saying that this was simply one other bear market rally and buyers are about to make a mistake…
However right here’s the fact – buyers flip bullish as quickly as you make an all-time excessive. So in different phrases, buyers typically battle after a decline. They’ll battle the rally till you make a brand new all-time excessive. At a brand new excessive, they flip they flip round and turn out to be bullish and I feel that that’s going to occur as quickly as markets make a brand new all-time excessive.”
Lee says Bitcoin’s current all-time excessive above $111,000 is one other main indicator for the S&P, as a result of Bitcoin peaked a couple of month earlier than the S&P did and so they’re each monitoring elevated international liquidity.
As for Moody’s downgrade of US authorities debt from AAA to AA1, Lee says he doubts it’s a damaging sign for markets, noting that S&P first downgraded the US in 2011 and Fitch adopted in 2023.
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