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US equities and the economy: squaring the circle

While this month’s slump in the US stock market can’t be blamed on bad economic news, it can be attributed – at least in part – to concerns about the prospects for economic growth. We think that these worries are justified and forecast that the S&P 500 will end next year even lower than it is now, at 2,500.

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