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Long-term concern for the S&P 500?

Thursday, June 15, 2023

As the S&P 500 attempts to retrace its 2022 losses, the mood music has shifted on Wall Street. With inflation slowing and the Fed closer to the end of its rate-hike cycle than the beginning, the fundamental catalysts that plagued the index in 2022 have receded. However, maintaining the inflation progress could create another headache for the S&P 500.

 

Job openings are often a leading indicator of a resilient economy but with wage inflation running hot, the Fed needs to cool the labour market to reduce output inflation to its 2% goal.

Chairman Jerome Powell said in May 2022:

“You can see that there’s a labour shortage. There aren’t enough people to fill these job openings. And companies can’t hire, and wages are moving up at levels that would not be consistent with 2% inflation over time… There’s an imbalance there that we have to work on.”

The important part to remember is that the S&P 500 has followed JOLTS job openings for the last 20+ years. The blue line below tracks the S&P 500, while the red line below tracks JOLTS job openings. If you analyse the right side of the chart, you can see that the S&P 500’s recent surge contrasts JOLTS’ weakness. If the Fed successfully reduces the metric to its pre-pandemic level, the red line would fall substantially.

So, will the S&P 500 confront long-term trouble, or is the relationship poised to break?


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