Market is showing signs that 'less bad can turn into a good thing'

Money Life with Chuck Jaffe - A podcast by Chuck Jaffe

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Matt Harris, chief investment officer at The Hausberg Group, says that it has been a market year of extremes, a polarizing year where the stock and bond markets have been oversold, gold has been overbought and investors and their emotions have been whipsawed by the moves. Yet he sees many of the factors creating those conditions as mitigating and calming down now, and as those factors stabilize he notes that things will get 'less bad,' which should be enough to keep the market on solid footing and with slow gains moving forward. Craig Callahan, chief executive at ICON Advisers returns to the show, following on Thursday's discussion about his book on 'unloved' bull markets, noting that he sees stocks on average right now to be about 9 percent below the firm's fair value estimate right now. Further, Callahan says that 2022 may be a year where there are positive outcomes despite no catalyst for a market rally, because 'if you priced in horrible and it turns out just being bad, you could have a rally.' Plus, Seth Brufsky of the Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund talks about how current events are affecting the capital markets, and Chuck talks about how important it is for investors to lean into all types of risk now.