“What happens next?” Everyone wants to know the answer, but nobody has it (if they do, they are lying).
Still, one attempt at framing the narrative, comes from BofA’s Savita Subramanian. Here is the 30,000 foot cliff notes version of the two sides of the story.
First, the bear case, or as BofA calls it “an economic shock derails a fragile economy.”
Concern over global growth has become more wide-spread, as suggested by the charts below. We believe that outside of an exogenous geopolitical event, an economic shock would most likely be tied to credit, where signs of stress are building the most.
Growth expectations have come down over the past 12 months, per the Global Fund Manager Survey More investors are starting to believe we’re in the ‘late cycle’ There are signs of stress in the high yield market, with distress ratio increasing recently More companies in the S&P 500 are projected to lose money than those with negative EPS 12M ago.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 10/31/2015.
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