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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 223.95+1.7%Nov 21 3:59 PM EST

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To: MrGreenJeans who wrote (25414)10/18/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
MrGreenJeans: re: "Low inflation + Low interest rates + Slow Growth + A Decrease in Rates + Decent profit growth in 1999 = A sustainable upside"

IMO, all the requirements for the continuation of the goldilocks scenario are going to happen, except the "Decent profit growth in 1999" part. Let's be specific about this:

A: what is the profit growth in 1999 that would be required to have an increase in the market's PE?
B: what will profit growth be in 1999?

My guess is that A=10-15%, and B=0-5%. I think the odds of B=or>A are quite small. So, you don't get the sustainable upside. Instead, you get a volatile market going sideways, at best.
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