U.S. stocks are set to wrap up the year in joyful fashion as investors looked past an array of pandemic threats.
The markets’ prevailing positivity may be confounding in a year of acute economic challenges. Yet 2021 also saw strong corporate profits bolstered by exuberant consumer spending — even in the face of higher prices and supply chain delays.“The enthusiasm emanates from the fact that Corporate America, as defined by earnings, is
While markets hate uncertainty, investors tend to “look through” the kinds of transitory issues that dominate headlines, from surging covid caseloads to labor market conditions, Wicker said, making decisions for a multiyear time horizon. A frightening lack of information fueled panic in the early stages of the pandemic, he said. But in 2021, the combination of vaccines and a growing font of data about covid-19 has taught the market “to look through each wave of the pandemic.
Beyond the marquee figures, companies’ bottom lines have been pummeled by an array of threats and uncertainties, according to Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. Ninety-three percent of companies on the S&P 500, and 89 percent of those listed on the Nasdaq have seen their shares slide 10 percent or more at some point this year.
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