“What Will We Be Talking About This Time Next Year” – Here Is Jeff Gundlach’s Answer

Over the weekend, Barron’s published its annual roundtable in which prominent investors previewed what they expect out of 2017: “a year of seismic shifts for the markets and, quite possibly, the world. Or, as Goldman Sachs strategist Abby Joseph Cohen said at this year’s Barron’s Roundtable, ‘We are breaking a lot of trends.’ As Barron’s dubbed it, “this could be the year the movie runs backward: Inflation awakens. Bond yields reboot. Stocks stumble. Active management rules. And we haven’t even touched on the coming regime change in Washington, which will usher tax cutters and regulatory reformers back to power after an eight-year absence.”
While there were many insightful observations by the group of participants – whose sentiment was decidedly more bearish than during last year’s event – which included Scott Black, Felix Zulauf, Mario Gabelli, Meryl Witmer, Brian Rogers, Oscar Schafer, and Abby Cohen, we will focus on the predictions of Jeffrey Gundlach, if only due to his track record from the similar Barron’s roundtable one year earlier, in which he turned out to be far more prescient than most of his peers, not least of all because he “made the greatest prediction at last year’s Roundtable – that Trump would win the presidency.”
The first question posed to Gundlach was also the broadest one: what are you predicting now?

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 16, 2017.