(Bloomberg) — The latest rout in US stocks took the S&P 500 below its June bear-market low — and then some buyers showed up.
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The S&P 500 fell as much as 2.7% to 3,656, below the mid-June bottom of 3,666. It fluctuated just a few points above that level during the session, with programmed buys briefly halting the decline.
“The buyers strike is right because you can park your money somewhere else,” said Willie Delwiche, an investment strategist at All Star Charts. “There’s a lot more work that needs to be done before we can really feel a lot of conviction that anything sustainable is emerging.”
Traders who watch charts for signs of where the drop might ease had identified the June low as a potential area for support. A close below that level would wipe out all gains since the end of 2020.
The S&P 500 fell for a fourth straight day and is on track for its fourth weekly decline in five. The selloff has been unforgiving across sectors: the gauge has had over 400 members close lower on each of the last three days before Friday.
“The technicals have fallen out of bed,” Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley, said in a phone call.
Its breakdown since the August peaks solidifies the downtrend channel in place since the bull market apex in early January, according to Gina Martin Adams at Bloomberg Intelligence. “The breakdown beneath 3,900 support leaves little for the index to grasp at on its way to testing the June lows,” she wrote in a note.
The Federal Reserve this week made it crystal clear that it’s going to keep raising rates sharply until officials see signs that price pressures are easing. That process won’t be “painless” for the labor and housing markets, Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned.
Its rate hike on Wednesday came with projections that the central bank has another 1.25 percentage points of tightening in store for investors this year, a far more aggressive pace than investors expected.
Despite the rout, stocks are still far from being obvious bargains. At the low in June, the S&P 500 was trading at 18 times earnings, a multiple that surpassed trough valuations seen in all previous 11 bear cycles, data compiled by Bloomberg show. In other words, should equities recover from here, this bear-market bottom will have been the most expensive since the 1950s.
While investors used to be positioned as if the economy was headed for a soft landing, that’s no longer the case, according to Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at iCapital.
“What the markets really need to do is price in a recession because it seems like that’s what a weakness in the labor market would ultimately cost,” she said on Bloomberg TV this week.
The market’s been trading in a 3,700-3,800 to 4,300 range for a while now, she said.
“We may need to see a break below the bottom of that trading range to really find dirt-cheap value in equities,” Amoroso said. “We’re just not there yet, so the trade for now is to actually be defensive and to get paid while you wait for this bottom in the market.”
As for the June low, many are seeing an ominous signal in the number.
“Anything that’s lower than where it is now feels devilish,” Kim Forrest, founder and chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, said in an interview.
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