, which is trading around two year lows. The greenback has dropped more than 6% over the past three months.
He sees it as a major negative wildcard for stocks because much of the last bull market was based on a strong dollar with low inflation. "A prolonged period of dollar weakness would bring that all into question, and certainly shift the leadership within the market to something much more pro-inflation oriented," he said. "It would certainly upset a lot of investors, and make their previous portfolios probably wrong for that new environment if the dollar were to continue to weaken.", Bernstein is particularly attracted to gold. It comprises about 8% of his firm's multi-asset portfolios.
"People think of gold as being a hedge against things like inflation. But I think they've missed gold historically has been a very good hedge against uncertainty," he added. "Now, it's got a little momentum tag to it."hit an all-time high of $1,941.90 on a nominal basis. But when adjusted for inflation, it was below the record level of $2,919.36 touched in January 1980.
"It's still worthwhile to have in a portfolio," Bernstein said. "The only thing that we know is certain over the next several year is that there's going to be more uncertainty."
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