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Wall Street Breakfast

Excess liquidity; pockets of opportunity in energy + industrials

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

David Trainer says the Fed and liquidity remain a salient driver of markets (0:23). Big opportunity now in energy and industrials (3:40). This is an abridged conversation from Seeking Alpha's Investing Experts podcast.

Episode transcripts: seekingalpha.com/wsb

Show links:
It's All About Liquidity
Opportunity Today Is In Energy, Especially Oil And Gas - Chris DeMuth Jr.
Citi says no U.S. soft landing, recession signs by summer
Rate cuts can start this year if disinflation continues: Powell in Senate hearing

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0:14.4

David trainer welcome back you've had a few recent articles on seeking Alpha talking about some ETS and sectors. How are you thinking about things? Well I think the the most

0:19.4

important driver really of markets these days is the Fed and liquidity. As long as we're

0:27.1

pumping more liquidity into the market, fiscal, monetary, whichever, I think we're going to see stocks start to just

0:36.2

continue to move up in the way we have and you know we're inventing new meme stocks

0:40.9

you know all the time you know invidia arm etc and I think we're seeing actually a bit of a

0:48.3

sophistication improvement I believe in our retail investing base where to be a meme stock you don't have to be a junk stock right

0:57.3

You know you know Walmart even taking a big run you know Walmart was a focusless stock of ours for a long time.

1:02.5

It got expensive.

1:03.7

We took it off the list.

1:05.8

You know, it's had a huge run-up this year.

1:08.2

And I think what's happening is that this liquidity

1:11.4

is potentially excess liquidity in a lot of individual and retail hands is getting

1:16.5

smarter.

1:17.5

I think the board apes got bored with chasing meme stocks and they said, you know, I don't

1:21.8

have to put my money into a junk stock that's about to go bankrupt.

1:26.2

Why don't I invest in Walmart?

1:27.6

And just take some risk all the table and do just as well probably.

1:34.2

So I think that that's a positive movement.

1:37.0

But in terms of the overall market,

1:38.9

I think a lot of that really just depends

1:41.4

on what the Fed's doing and where people see rates and what that

1:46.2

means about excess liquidity. It's funny because this is a lot about what you

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