“Everyone has a view on the stock market,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) notes in a recent investment letter that says stocks are trading around fair value and will likely rise 4 percent next year. Yellen’s letter notes stretched valuation of small-cap stocks The letter notes that last week, Fed Chair Yellen described the “stretched” valuation of small-caps while president Obama said markets should decide valuations. Obama previous equity valuation comment, the report notes, led to a significant market rally. On March 3, 2009, with the S&P 500 trading at 696, Obama said ”what you’re now seeing is profit and earnings ratios…
Goldman Sachs (Sorta) Credits Obama With Bull Market Rally
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.