Market Overview Analysis by Albert Anthony covering: Boeing Co, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, MetLife Inc. Read Albert Anthony's latest article on Investing.com
The topic of inflation is a common theme in recent years not just in financial media but across mainstream as well, while also making headlines are decisions by central banks like the US Federal Reserve to cool down runaway inflation such as its decision on January 29th to keep its target rate where it's already at.
For instance, as we can see in the above chart, around the time of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis there was an extended period of recession coupled with a rapid drop in the inflation rate , which in fact appeared to have been a severely deflationary period.
As we are wrapping up the first month of January 2025 now and the first Fed decision of the year, we also know from history that both interest rate hikes and inflation levels seem to go through their cycles, as do recessions, and therefore I think we can expect more such cycles in the future, and so the question I had as a future-minded analyst is what kind of future upside factors and future downside risks we can expect from such cycles, and which market sectors and stocks may see a tailwind...
Some bank stocks that come to mind who have very large lending or credit card businesses, which depend on interest revenue growth, are Capital One (NYSE: So, when picking REITs recently I was bullish on ones that already have a positive and stable credit rating from major rating agencies, and a modest or low debt/equity ratio vs similar peers. One such stock would be CareTrust REIT (NYSE:A future-minded investor could take the long-term view, for example, and grab a quality REIT stock while it is undervalued, with the expectation that a future low interest rate environment could provide significant upside to this sector and its share prices too.
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