No, bad news isn’t good news for stocks
  • 12 October, 2022

Jon Sindreu, The Wall Street Journal

Bad economic data may not prompt the Federal Reserve to pivot back toward lower interest rates like it used to

Stock markets appear to have gone back to the dictum that “bad news for the economy is good news for asset prices." While this may have worked in the post-2008 era, bad news today would probably just be bad.