S&P 500 Is Getting Ready For Real Wage Growth

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Rupert Hargreaves
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The S&P 500 is highly correlated to real wage growth and recent gains in the index may be anticipating faster wage growth under Donald Trump, that’s according to research from analysts at Jefferies. S&P 500 Is Getting Ready For Real Wage Growth According to Jefferies’s weekly chart update, when compared to returns of the S&P 500, real wage growth (average hourly earnings minus core CPI) seem to correlate well. However, figures show that although nominal wages have rebounded in the past year and a half, real wages have not which appears to suggest room to move higher for the index…

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for ValueWalk