Birinyi's Rubin offers startling prediction for S&P 500

Birinyi's Rubin offers startling prediction for S&P 500
Sees large-cap index topping 2,100 at peak of current bull market
JUN 21, 2011
By  John Goff
Birinyi Associates Inc.'s Jeffrey Yale Rubin said the firm is bullish on equities this year, while Dean Curnutt of Macro Risk Advisors says the performance of stocks depends on the actions by the Federal Reserve. “For the remainder of the year, we're positive,” Rubin said today at a panel discussion on equities at the Bloomberg Money Managers conference in Boston. For the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, “we have a target of 2,100 but that's not this year, that's not next year. When we look at stock markets that go on for a long period of time, that start off quickly -- 1974, 1982, 2009 -- those markets are not ones that end quickly. If you also look at those markets during this period, phase two of the market, it runs into difficulty.” The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average have fallen six straight weeks, the longest streaks since 2008 and 2002, respectively, as reports on jobs and manufacturing spurred concern that the global economy is slowing. The S&P 500 is still up 90 percent since its low in March 2009. Equities have risen since August, with the S&P 500 up 23 percent since Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled the central bank would provide stimulus measures to boost the economy. Curnutt, the New York-based chief executive officer of Macro Risk, said the firm's view on stocks is “largely conditional” on the next policy response by the U.S. central bank. The Fed's $600 billion program of buying Treasuries to stimulate the economy is ending this month. The S&P 500 could rise to 2,100 if the Fed decided it wanted it to, he said at the conference. “One of the problems we're having is asset prices are necessarily imposed with a tremendous amount of artificiality from the Fed, from the fiscal response,” Curnutt said. --Bloomberg News--

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