Stock Traders Get Back to Believing Everything Is Just Perfect

09/02/2023 22:05
Stock Traders Get Back to Believing Everything Is Just Perfect

In the boardrooms of Corporate America, one big fear has been palpable for more than a year now: That surging interest rates are set to wipe out earnings, cap stock prices and kill off investment.

Stock Traders Get Back to Believing Everything Is Just Perfect

  • It will take time before rising rates become problematic: BI
  • Part of the reason why earnings, market have held up: Hogan

Pedestrians near the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

In the boardrooms of Corporate America, one big fear has been palpable for more than a year now: That surging interest rates are set to wipe out earnings, cap stock prices and kill off investment.

Yet with the S&P 500 netting its best week since June after a month-long anxiety attack, equity traders are once again shrugging off the highest borrowing costs in more than two decades. A good reason: While interest expenses are on the rise, they remain near the lowest levels since 2009.

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