Prof. Jeremy Siegel speaks at LINC 2018. (Photo: Lila Photo for TD Ameritrade Institutional)
The "tremendous increase in liquidity" the U.S. government has created through its stimulus efforts will be flowing into equity in the stock market, but just what types of equity it will flow into most will depend on how quickly the market opens up, according to Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at Wharton and WisdomTree senior investment strategy advisor.
"If it looks like the economy is reopening, that will flow into" the value stocks — non-Nasdaq and non-technology stocks — the most, Siegel said Monday, during his weekly conference call on the state of the markets.
However, he said: "If it looks like the economy isn't opening so fast, then the tech stocks will outperform," he predicted.
There were a lot of reopenings of economies in recent days, both within U.S. and around the world, he noted, adding it was, therefore, "not surprising" that Dow value stocks started "outperforming," while the Nasdaq was up only slightly Monday.
Another prediction: "If we do not get a second wave" of COVID-19 infections in the U.S. this year, its is "more likely than unlikely that we will get an all-time high in the S&P," he said. And "there could be many reasons why" that second wave doesn't happen, including "we get effective antiviral" medication or a vaccine arrives, he noted.
More Promising Signs
Despite pointing to another strong stock market showing on Monday, he said: "It could have been a little greater day if we didn't get some tweets about anti-Chinese moves at the end." He was apparently referring to the tweets of President Donald Trump bashing China over how it handled the pandemic and blaming the country for not containing it.
