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    1. What is the risk of a market correction?

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    What is the risk of a market correction?

    09/16/2022

    David Lebovitz

    It is important to remember that volatility creates opportunity for long-term investors.

    David M. Lebovitz

    Global Market Strategist

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    09/15/2022

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    David Lebovitz:                

    Hello, my name is David Lebovitz, and I'm a global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. Welcome to On the Minds of Investors. This week I'd like to talk a little bit about the risk of a market correction. Risk assets were better behaved in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve's meeting in July and also coming out of Labor Day weekend. However, both of these rallies proved to be false dawns. In July, investors were under the impression that the Fed would pivot and cut rates in 2023; while more recently, investors had latched onto the idea that inflation was cooling faster than expected. In each instance, expectations were divorced from reality with tougher Fed rhetoric in an August CPI report that showed less cooling than expected, forcing a repricing across capital markets. Higher volatility represents a wider distribution of outcomes. Given the plethora of questions around the outlook for inflation and rates, it should not be surprising that volatility has moved higher. As shown in the chart below, equity market volatility is sitting just above its long run average, while interest rate and foreign exchange volatility have remained nearly two standard deviations above their respective long run averages.

    Looking ahead, it seems unlikely that equity volatility will be able to sustainably decline until interest rate volatility has returned to more normal levels. It is nearly impossible to price financial asset if you can't decide what the discount rate is actually supposed to be. We still believe headline inflation has peaked on a year over year basis, but more clarity on the trajectory of inflation will be key in order for interest rate volatility and therefore capital market volatility broadly to decline. The Fed looks set to continue raising interest rates in a fairly aggressive way through the end of 2022 and potentially into 2023 if inflation proves stickier than expected. Housing inflation in particular looks set to remain persistent, and a key question will be whether the Fed is able to differentiate between the stickiness in core inflation that is coming from housing versus consumer prices more broadly. The bottom line is that volatility looks set to persist into year end, and we could well retest the low scene in June. That said, it is important to remember that volatility creates opportunity for long term investors.

    Risk assets were better behaved in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting in July, and also coming out of Labor Day weekend. However, both of these rallies proved to be false dawns. In July, investors were under the impression that the Fed would pivot and cut rates in 2023, while more recently, investors had latched on to the idea that inflation was cooling faster than expected. In each instance expectations were divorced from reality, with tougher Fed rhetoric and an August CPI report that showed less cooling than expected forcing a repricing across capital markets.

    Higher volatility represents a wider distribution of outcomes; given the plethora of questions around the outlook for inflation and rates, it should not be surprising that volatility has moved higher. As shown in the chart below, equity market volatility is sitting just above its long-run average while interest rate and foreign exchange (FX) volatility have remained nearly two standard deviations above their respective long-run averages. Looking ahead, it seems unlikely that equity volatility will be able to sustainably decline until interest rate volatility has returned to more normal levels; it is nearly impossible to price a financial asset if you cannot decide what the discount rate is supposed to be.

    We still believe headline inflation has peaked on a year-over-year basis, but more clarity on the trajectory of inflation will be key in order for interest rate volatility – and therefore capital market volatility broadly – to decline. The Fed looks set to continue raising interest rates in a fairly aggressive way through the end of 2022, and potentially into 2023 if inflation proves stickier than expected. Housing inflation in particular looks set to remain stubborn, and a key question will be whether the Fed is able to differentiate between the stickiness in core inflation that is coming from housing versus consumer prices more broadly. The bottom line is that volatility looks set to persist into year-end, and we could well retest the lows seen in June; that said, it is important to remember that volatility creates opportunity for long-term investors.

    Equity volatility has diverged from FX and rates

    Z-score, 4-week moving average

    A chart showing how equity volatility has diverged from FX and rates.

    Source: CBOE, ICE BofA,  J.P. Morgan Index Research, FactSet, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Equity volatility is represented by the VIX Index, interest rate volatility is represented by the MOVE Index and foreign exchange volatility is represented by the J.P. Morgan Global FX Volatility Index
    Data is based on availability as of September 14, 2022.

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