Lee had a 4,750 call on the S&P going into this year, which he described as a higher-than-consensus prediction largely because he felt inflation would fall more than others and the US economy wouldn’t slip into recession. With markets now cheering soft inflation prints and signs the economy is still growing, Lee thinks a similar narrative plays out in 2024.
“2023 was a year where the [stock market] technicians got it right … And economists got it wrong” Lee said at a 2024 outlook roundtable on Thursday.