Goldman Sachs upgrades global equities to overweight for the next 3 months
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Goldman Sachs strategists upgraded their rating on equities for the next 3 months, believing that strong earnings could drive global equities higher.
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Goldman Sachs: Strong Earnings Could Drive Global Equities Higher
PANews October 12 reported that Goldman Sachs Group strategists have turned bullish on the near-term outlook for global equities, believing that strong corporate earnings will drive markets, which are already near record highs, higher still. The team led by Christian Mueller-Glissmann said in a report that rising oil prices and bond yields had stalled the equity rally, easing valuation pressures, while the corporate earnings outlook remained solid. They upgraded their rating on equities for the next 3 months from neutral to overweight, consistent with a bullish stance for the following 12 months. Christian said: “Earnings growth continues to support equities, while the recent valuation pullback has improved the risk-reward profile as the third-quarter earnings season approaches.” Strategists at Wall Street institutions including Bank of America and Barclays have also recently become more bullish on the outlook for U.S. equities, partly because corporate earnings expectations are strong. Bank of America strategist Subramanian has marked...
PANews reported that Goldman Sachs Group strategists have turned bullish on the near-term outlook for global equities.
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The team led by Christian Mueller-Glissmann believes that strong corporate earnings will drive markets, which are already near record highs, higher still.
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The report said that rising oil prices and bond yields had stalled the equity rally, easing valuation pressures, while the corporate earnings outlook remained solid.
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The team upgraded its rating on equities for the next 3 months from neutral to overweight and maintained a bullish stance for the following 12 months.
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Christian said that earnings growth continues to support equities, while the recent valuation pullback has improved the risk-reward profile as the third-quarter earnings season approaches.
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The original article said that strategists at Bank of America and Barclays have also recently become more bullish on the outlook for U.S. equities, partly because corporate earnings expectations are strong.
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This is a strategic view: the Goldman Sachs team believes that corporate earnings continue to provide support and that recent valuation pressures have eased, making equities more attractive over the next 3 months. “Overweight” means that the team recommends allocating more to equities than the benchmark level, but it does not mean that the market will necessarily rise.
Why it matters to readers
Major institutions have upgraded their equity ratings, which could affect market expectations for the near-term performance of global and U.S. equities. The article also mentions rising oil prices and bond yields, which could still constrain equity performance.
Beginners can view this as an institutionally bullish assessment of the equity market, rather than a promise of certain returns. Going forward, attention can be paid to whether actual corporate earnings, oil prices, and bond yields align with this assessment.
Risks and unknowns
The content is PANews’ account of a Goldman Sachs report and does not provide the original report.
The final paragraph of the main text is truncated, and the content related to Bank of America strategist Subramanian is incomplete.
Whether corporate earnings in the future can meet expectations has not been validated by actual performance data in the article.
It cannot be determined from the available content whether oil prices and bond yields will continue to rise.
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