NEW YORK Reuters - Phil Orlando has not heard this many people mentioning stagflation since he was a financial journalist in the late s, when oil prices were soaring and inflation stood at more than double its current level.
Now the chief equity market strategist at Federated Hermes, Orlando says stagflation is poised to make a comeback and is piling into shares of companies that can thrive during periods of high inflation and slower economic growth.
That's stagflation. Consumer prices rose at an annual pace of 5. Meanwhile, third quarter U. Most economists believe stagflation is far from inevitable, and the Federal Reserve has said rising prices will prove temporary. For graphic on stagflation Worries Hover Over U.
Yet many investors are on alert, wary of the corrosive effect that past periods of stagflation have had on asset prices. Past episodes of stagflation have weighed on stocks. Bonds also struggled during the last major stagflationary period, which began in the late s. Spiking oil prices, rising unemployment and loose monetary policy pushed the core consumer price index up to a high of The benchmark year U. Treasury fell in nine of the 11 years leading up to , according to data compiled by Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University.
Orlando, of Federated Hermes, is holding shares of companies that can pass on rising costs to consumers, including energy and industrial firms. Navellier has focused on big-box retailers that own their supply chains, like Target Inc.
Many on Wall Street reject comparisons to the s, arguing that the causes of the current bout of inflation are either overblown or likely to fade. Jean Boivin, head of the BlackRock Investment Institute, expects growth will accelerate as supplies become more readily available and is positioned for Treasury yields to move higher.
Analysts at UBS said that in addition to higher oil prices, stagflation in the s was driven by factors that are less meaningful today, including government price controls that constricted supply. Signs of a faster taper and more aggressive interest rate increases could weigh on stocks. After the closing bell Thursday afternoon, Sundial released its third-quarter earnings report.
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