BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink discusses the economic outlook on “Craman Countdown.”
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recognizes that many investors tend to live and work for the short term, but to explain the “two-part story” of the economy: chose a long-term perspective.
“If you look at the credit market today, you don’t see businesses being overly burdened. There are now more and more small businesses in some private credit areas. “I think it’s a two-part story,” the head of the world’s largest asset manager told Fox Business’ Liz Claman on Wednesday, adding, “The big cap companies in S&P are doing very well across the board.” .
U.S. stocks such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new highs a month ago, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq broke its closing record for the first time since November 2021.
More recently, the recent successful IPOs of social platform Reddit (RDDT) and former President Donald Trump’s Media & Technology Group (DJT) have sent the S&P 500 soaring. But Fink says this doesn’t seem like bubble territory.
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The CEO said, “I don’t think it’s a bubble. I think the stock price is being verified. We’re also seeing momentum in earnings.” “This is starting to show that the breadth of the market is widening. Historically, we’ve been looking at seven stocks going up. But actually, the breadth of the market is widening. For me, That’s a good sign.”
Larry Fink joined “Claman Countdown” on Wednesday and detailed “a story of two parts of the economy.” (Getty Images)
He added: “When I talk to CEOs and companies, probably 80% of the companies I talk to are feeling upward momentum.”
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But Fink looked to the Federal Reserve’s predictions about the trajectory of interest rates, saying there will be “probably two more” rate hikes amid economic uncertainty, and that that will have a negative impact on markets. He claimed that there was no such thing.
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“Most of our viewers own their homes and own their homes with 30-year mortgages, so they won’t be affected by rising interest rates. So the average homeowner won’t be affected. The propagation of high interest rates in the U.S. will be further prolonged because there is no [an] It’s kind of an adjustable mortgage, and it always resets,” Fink explained.
“It reduces volatility dramatically,” he added. “As I’ve been saying for more than two years, inflation is going to get even more robust. I still believe that inflation could get even more robust. But the Federal Reserve… I believe there is room to test the economy and the market.”
FOX Business’ Suzanne O’Halloran contributed to this report.
