The bull market will survive a rough spring
By Jeff Macke
Featuring Jeff Saut on Breakout – Yahoo Finance
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When Wall Street strategists insist on hedging their forecasts using time frames it means one of two things. Usually it’s a way of sidestepping accountability and ducking into the standard sales pitch about the stock market historically returning somewhere around 9% or more on an annual basis. While mathematically true that’s neither earth shattering nor actionable.
In the case of Raymond James’ Jeff Saut his emphasis on the big picture is a polite way of avoiding the fact that stocks have been trading horribly for over a month and there’s little to suggest the near-term risk outlook is anything other than ominous.
“I think longer-term we’re in a secular bull market very much like we were from 1982 to 2000,” offers Saut in the attached video. “Not a lot of people believe that, especially not the individual investors. They don’t understand how you can have a secular bull when you have dysfunctional government, unemployment higher than what it should be at this stage of a recovery and GDP lower than what it should be.”
