Some investors wary of ‘buying the dip’ as Ukraine, Fed gyrate stocks | Malay Mail

NEW YORK, Feb 26 — US stocks are drawing buyers after a recent tumble, but some investors believe buying the dip this time may be a far riskier bet than in the past as markets face geopolitical strife and a hawkish Federal Reserve.

The S&P is down 8 per cent year-to-date and confirmed it was in a correction by falling more than 10 per cent from its record high earlier this week — its biggest decline since stocks lost nearly a third of their value in the Covid-19 selloff of March 2020 before doubling from their lows. Anticipation of Fed tightening has weighed on markets in recent weeks, as investors price in around 165 points of interest rate increases by next February. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said he expected to raise interest rates in March for the first time since 2018.

“This is going to get worse before it gets better,” he told Reuters in a recent interview. “Asset managers don’t have these outcomes in their realm of possibilities.” In addition to the fast-moving situation in Ukraine, investors next week will be watching Friday’s non-farm payrolls data for February — the last such employment report the Fed will see before its monetary policy meeting in March.

BlackRock earlier this week added to its strategic overweight in equities, saying investors may be overestimating how hawkish central banks will need to be in their battle against inflation. JPMorgan’s analysts, meanwhile, argued that “initial volatility around rate liftoff didn’t last and equities made new all-time highs 2-4 quarters out.”

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