Next rate hike will spark 'dangerous game' with state of economy, investor Peter Boockvar warns

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 Stocks descend  connected  hotter-than-expected CPI report

The market's convulsive absorption to hotter-than-expected ostentation whitethorn usher successful much losses.

Investor Peter Boockvar believes Wall Street is coming to grips with a achy reality: Inflation isn't moderating, truthful the Federal Reserve won't pivot.

"After adjacent week's complaint hike, we're going to commencement playing a unsafe crippled with the authorities of the economy. The adjacent complaint hike is going to beryllium lone the 2nd clip successful 40 years that the Fed funds complaint is going to transcend the anterior highest successful a complaint hiking cycle," the Bleakley Advisory Group main concern serviceman told CNBC's "Fast Money" connected Tuesday. "We're getting into treacherous waters."

According to Boockvar, a 3/4 constituent hike astatine adjacent week's Fed gathering is virtually a done woody — contempt signs of softer commodity prices and utilized car prices slowing down.

"The BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] lags successful however it captures that. So, that's wherefore we person this benignant of two-lane road with some sides going successful other directions," said Boockvar. "We rallied 200 S&P points successful the 4 days starring into contiguous [Tuesday] due to the fact that the markets are driving connected 1 side, and the BLS hasn't yet captured that. Unfortunately, the Fed is besides lagging successful presumption of however they're reacting to things. They're driving besides with a rear-view reflector benignant of mentality."

The large indexes fell to June 2020 lows aft the August user terms scale [CPI] roseate by 0.1% to 8.3% implicit the past year. A meaningful driblet successful gasoline prices failed to offset rising shelter, nutrient and aesculapian attraction costs. According to Dow Jones, economists thought the scale would autumn by 0.1%.

The ostentation determination higher prompted Nomura to officially changed its complaint hike forecast. It present expects the Fed to rise rates by a afloat constituent astatine the adjacent meeting.

Boockvar, a CNBC contributor, doesn't expect the Fed to spell that far. However, helium warns investors volition inactive person to woody with the economical consequences from wealthiness demolition to net declines.

"If labour costs stay sticky, if they proceed to emergence astatine the aforesaid clip the gross broadside starts to dilatory successful the look of this slowing economy, you're going to person further cuts successful net estimates astatine the aforesaid time." helium said. "I don't deliberation this marketplace conscionable ends with a [p/e] aggregate astatine 17x."

Boockvar believes multiples volition yet beryllium 15x oregon lower.

CNBC "Fast Money" trader Brian Kelly besides sees much occupation for stocks and the economy, peculiarly housing.

"We're conscionable hardly seeing the cracks successful housing. So, arsenic that starts to travel down, radical are going to consciousness similar they had little wealth than they did before… And then, we don't cognize what that's going to bash to the economy," helium said. "This 75 [basis constituent complaint hike] mightiness adjacent beryllium a mistake. We cognize there's a lag."

And, that could adjacent beryllium excessively overmuch for the system to handle.

"This is simply a Federal Reserve that could not rise involvement rates 25 ground points successful 2018 and really turned the marketplace into a convulsion, and yet they had to measurement backmost successful and statesman this easing process," Tim Seymour, different "Fast Money" trader, added. "We went from a spot wherever we could not rise rates adjacent successful bully times fto unsocial hard times."

The adjacent Fed gathering is from Sept. 20 to 21.

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