{"id":365003,"date":"2010-02-26T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/citi-stocks-are-so-cheap-that-they-can-withstand-a-sovereign-crisis-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-26T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:58:00","slug":"citi-stocks-are-so-cheap-that-they-can-withstand-a-sovereign-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365003","title":{"rendered":"Citi: Stocks Are So Cheap That They Can Withstand A Sovereign Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'themoneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stock market performance is both a function of economic performance <em>and<\/em> valuations. At low valuations, stocks can withstand a lot of bad news, while at high valuations they can fail to move higher on good news and crash on the same bad news that, at lower valuations, they would merely shrug to.<\/p>\n<p>Thus as Citi&#8217;s Robert Buckland highlights, stocks might be able to withstand a European sovereign crisis, given that they are trading at a historically low price to book valuation globally:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Robert Buckland @ Citi:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As equity valuations look reasonable, they should provide some protection against further disappointments. Right now, global equities trade on a trailing price to book of 1.8x, well below the 3x reached before the Asian crisis and the 2.7x reached before the recent financial crisis. Indeed, current levels are even well below the 2.1x reached before the Mexican crisis in 1995.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So, we think that further contagion in global equities will be limited from here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8760b47f8b9a226c150300-550-\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It would be naive to not expect some kind of correction if a true European crisis unfolds, but the point is that any correction could be surprisingly mild. As shown above and barring 2009&#8217;s lows, stocks are already cheaper now, globally, than any time in the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Via Citi, Global Economic Outlook And Strategy, Robert Buckland, 24 Feb 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/citi-stocks-are-so-cheap-that-they-can-withstand-a-sovereign-crisis-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/morgan-stanley-dont-worry-europe-can-go-down-in-flames-and-america-will-be-fine-2010-2\">Morgan Stanley: Don&#8217;t Worry, Europe Can Go Down In Flames And America Will Be Fine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/if-you-think-greece-is-bad-here-is-what-you-have-to-know-about-spain-2010-2\">Think Greece Is Scary? 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Thus as Citi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}