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Good morning. The headlines in the market, headlines, the headlines are a short, angry revival when President Donald Trump has given a 90-day break to the newly declared tariffs. The White House did not declare such a break and the market fell again. Humanity indeed You want to believe that these tariffs will not happen. We don’t know what to believe so send suggestions: robert.ammstrong@ft.com and Aiden.reiter@ft.com.

Is the risk cheaper now?

S & P fell 18 percent from the peak of February 500. It’s not bad.

Do you remember the monthly market in the fourth quarter of 2018? No? Most do not happen. The name doesn’t even have. However, the market decreased by 20 percent. Meanwhile, 2022 (inflation panic), 2020 (Covid-19) and 2008 (large financial crisis) (large financial crisis) (large financial crisis) were 25 percent, 33 percent and 57 percent, 57 percent.

However, the speed of the decline is concerned and the volatility in the markets shows that the tariff crisis will not end yet. For investors who are rational and lucky to sit in cash or short-term bonds – Warren Buffett, the most famous of Warren Buffett example – More decrease, perspective, not sold, thinking of those who think they are thinking. We are in real confusion, but markets to mix the markets every time.

Thus, it is a good time to think that risk markets are valuable now to ensure strong long-term income. There are many ways to look at this, none of them are completely satisfactory, but all of them have something to say.

Start with the most basic assessment metric, price / gain ratio. This is the current level of the S & P 500, the red line.

We have returned to a pandemic pandemic level, which is still relatively high than the last two decades. You may want to have a kind of theory of the Pandemic Pandeme (in inflation, other than 2022) to read this schedule. Unidedged’s favorite theory is that during the majority of periods, the financial policy is unusually empty, pushing the money to the markets. Income for financial compression (as some promised in the Trump administration), stocks do not seem cheap based on a PE here. They can even be the price to give the average long-term income below.

PE assessment is important when thinking about thinking about “e”. In particular, the potential damage to corporate gains from higher tariffs was evaluated in the worldview? At least on the basis of “bottom-up”, it seems that they have not received individual savings calculations for each company in S & P and add them. Below, in fact excellent Information about earningsA S & P 500 Evaluation for 2025. Since September, only 7 percent, “Freedom Day, thus, if you think that the tariffs will be high and will be permanent, it is probably the proportion of PE. 2026 estimates fell less. Again: It’s not cheap.

A slightly more complicated version of the PE ratio, as a cyclically adjustable profit product (“Cape” comes), as calculated by Yale’s Robert Shiller. This is a 10-year average gain, such as “E / P),” e “,” E “uses a 10-year treasury product to adjust the effects of interest rates. How productive is how productive than the shares are more productive and treasures. So it means cheaper in the table below. As you can see, the productivity of the S & P 500 has risen almost with a full percent point, but still does not seem water.

To think about the evaluation, a related road is related to the discount rate of the capital: the corresponding to the current prices of the capital is suitable for cash flows. Michelle Lerner and Holt team in UBS claims that high tariffs should bring a discount rate (and stock price down). Writes:

After the establishment of the world trade organization in 1995, trade liberalization, undoubtedly, allows the decline in inflation (more competition, less production costs, production costs, production costs, production costs, production costs), process and capital markets.

For this effect, the US discount rate for the better part of 150 years has changed from 5 to 8 percent. Since 1995, no 5 percent have exceeded the global financial crisis. Before the Tajik, in 1945, the US discount rate has been touched by something that has been hit by large tariffs in the imports. . . (1890 McKinley tariffs, Fordney-McCumber tariffs in 1922, 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs).

The discount rate below has a schedule until April 1. The discount rate rose by 3.6 percent to 3.1 percent, but Lerner so that “We are not compatible with a new normal or decline.”

Each 1 percent point change in the discount rate is moving about 20 percent in stocks, so a part of an average of 1995 will hurt a lot. Once again: Shares are not valued for long-term returns.

If all this hits a little abstract, see the prices of large technological resources that are driving and still driving. What you see is that the prices of these shares – have received only one year or more income despite the worst of tariff sales. All that happened is the reverse of an extreme last rally:

It is quite clear. Shares are not bargaining. However, Trump’s tariffs will not be done yet, and if they are not, it is time to think about what the level of deal can be. The best thing written at this point is the absolute banger of Jeremy Grantham’s GMO Investor letter“Investing again when it is terrible” in the 2009 market. Grantham wrote:

Like these crisis basements, previously reasonable people will start to predict the world’s end with very terrible and accurate information that will serve to strengthen the wisdom of your caution. . . There is only one treatment for terminal paralysis: you must have a combat plan for re-investment and paste it. . . Have a schedule for future market ads later (shopping). . .Please note that you will never catch down. . .A trap and deception seeking optimality; Will simply serve to increase your paralysis.

Words to remember, things should deteriorate. More about this in the coming days.

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