The US economy will enter a recession, according to billionaire and prominent hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, and stocks will decline far more. He predicted on CNBC on tuesday that the S&P 500 will decline by a total of 40% from peak to trough. He warned that the index might not recover until it reaches 3,000, or 20% below Monday's level.
The renowned hedge fund manager Cooperman believes US markets still have a ways to fall and forecasts that the country will enter a recession in 2023. He estimates that corporate profits will decline by a total of 40% because of the recession. According to him, a bull market in stocks is not expected to return anytime soon. This is based on a recent trend in which investors have sold equities in 2022 as the Federal Reserve has started what is probably going to be one of the quickest cycles of interest rate hikes in its history in a bid to rein in excessive inflation. Even the cryptocurrency exchange is down by 86%.
Cooperman started Omega Advisors, a hedge fund that he now manages as a family office. Bloomberg's economic news analysis claims that traders bracing for a long, dark night as stocks prepare for their largest decline in months after their dread of the Fed drove markets plummeting into bear territory on Monday. Investors are eager to see if the central bank provides any clues about whether it will increase rates more quickly. There are signs that it will happen since it is the only way to stop the allegedly worst inflation in 40 years.
Despite the stock market, President Joe Biden insisted that the US economy was booming because to its low unemployment and said that as inflation declines, it will be easier to see how well the country is recovering from the pandemic recession. At a conference of the AFL-CIO, the largest US labour confederation, on tuesday, Biden stated, "I honestly believe we achieved incredible progress by creating a new basis for our economy.