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Jeremy Siegel worries the hot 2020

stock market could collapse like it did
in February 2018
PUBL I S H ED THU, JA N 9 2020 • 1:32 P M E ST

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KEY Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel expressed concern Thursday about the TRENDING NOW
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Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel marveled Thursday at the stock

market’s strong start to 2020, but said he is concerned it may not last.

“I’m just a little worried that this is becoming a momentum-driven market at

this point,” Siegel said on CNBC’s “Fast Money: Halftime Report.” “You don’t
know how far it will go. Certainly no sign of a break right now, but I think we
people jumping on the train here and are going to ride it on a narrow path until
they feel they’ve got some good gains.”

The market’s run is reminiscent of January 2018, Siegel said, when the S&P
500 posted, at the time, its best monthly performance since March 2016.

However, stocks plunged sharply in February before erasing their losses in the
spring and summer months and returning to record highs. The recovery only
lasted until the fall, at which point markets again fell sharply and reached a
nadir on Christmas Eve 2018.

That collapse at the end of 2018 set up a powerful 2019 rally, which saw the
S&P 500 gain nearly 29% for its best annual performance since 2013.

The index reached another record high on Thursday and is up more than 1% to
start 2020. This is in spite of a turbulent start to the year in geopolitics as
tensions between the U.S. and Iran have flared.

Siegel said the market’s rally is taking place in a generally favorable

environment that includes low interest rates, appropriate liquidity from the
Federal Reserve’s repo operations and the improved standing of President
Donald Trump.

That does not mean the market is not vulnerable, though, Siegel said.

“I’m a little bit worried that if it continues much longer that something will
puncture it and people will get off the train,” he said.

Siegel said he doesn’t think long-term investors need to significantly adjust

their strategies, “but I don’t see this sort of run continuing certainly throughout
2020 and maybe not even through the quarter.”

Short-term traders with a tight range, on the other hand, should play the
market, Siegel said.

“But as we saw what happened in January 2018, boy, when you get off that
train it falls quickly,” he said.

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