Jean Boivin is a former Bank of Canada official who now heads the BlackRock Investment Institute. Spoke in an interview last week, reported on Monday across the wires ICYMI:

  • year-end rally in stocks could prove short-lived
  • equities are not currently fully reflecting the outlook for rates remaining higher for longer
  • “The question we ask is if the surge in rates has fed through to equities, and our answer is not yet,”
  • “We think there’s more downward adjustment to come, but we expect to see a better environment in 2024 once the adjustment is complete,”

If wrong:

  • “If it turns out that we’re wrong and there’s a material pick up in economic growth or a sustained pullback in rates, that would prompt us to become more optimistic on stocks”

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I posted similar from JPM earlier:

bears

So many bears