Artificial Intelligence, Millennial Inheritance Could Spark Stock Market Surge

• Despite concerns about market volatility due to a contentious presidential race, lingering inflation, and uncertainty over Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, financial analyst Tom Lee remains optimistic. He believes companies have shown strong resilience to economic shocks since Covid, enhancing their earnings potential.
• Lee highlights the benefits of cooling inflation for many companies, particularly technology firms, which tend to see margin improvements as inflation decreases. Additionally, he notes that AI advancements and a labor shortage could save businesses $3 trillion annually on salaries.
• Lee also forecasts that a significant wealth transfer of up to $90 trillion from baby boomers to millennials will benefit equities in the coming decades. However, financial planner Douglas Boneparth advises maintaining long-term investment goals and avoiding panicked selling during market declines.

Some investors may worry about market volatility ahead, given a contentious presidential race, lingering inflation, sinking consumer sentiment, and uncertainty over Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.

However, financial analyst Tom Lee has a more optimistic outlook. He believes that since the stress test companies went through during Covid, they have demonstrated a strong ability to adjust to inflation shocks, supply shocks, and economic shutdowns. As a result, Lee suggests that the earnings potential of companies is much better than people realized.

Even as inflation cools, many companies will benefit. Higher prices are generally advantageous for businesses, and many companies have an inverse correlation to inflation. For instance, technology companies tend to see their margins improve when inflation decreases.

Regarding worries that an early reduction in interest rates by the Federal Reserve would start a recession? Lee doesn't believe that will occur.

The Benefits of AI

Lee said his company has researched the factors that propel American invention cycles. The two greatest preceding periods, the 1940s and 1950s, and the 1990s, both saw a worldwide labor shortage.

According to Lee, businesses will be able to save an additional $3 trillion annually on salaries as a result of the labor scarcity.

A Wealth Transfer of $90 trillion

Lee also believes that equities will do well in the future because, according to some estimates, millennials will receive up to $90 trillion from the baby boomer generation over the course of the next 20 years. He suggested that certain equities might climb sharply as a result of the alleged huge wealth transfer.

Douglas Boneparth, a licensed financial planner and the president and founder of Bone Fide Wealth, a wealth management company with headquarters in New York City, stated that even at times of stock market peak performance, customers are often best served by adhering to their long-term goals.

This entails both keeping some assets well away from the market even in prosperous times and refraining from panicked selling amid inevitable declines.

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