1:06 PM UTC – November 21, 2023
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 will end next year only about 3% higher than its current level, with a possible U.S. economic slowdown or recession among the biggest risks for the market in 2024, according to strategists in a Reuters poll released Tuesday.
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The benchmark index (.SPX) will finish next year at 4,700, according to the median forecast of 33 strategists polled by Reuters during the last week and a half. That is 3.4% higher than Monday’s close of 4,547.38.
Nine of 13 strategists who also answered a question on whether U.S. stocks will hit a record high in the coming six months said yes, and most of them said they expect it to happen in the early part of 2024.
Wall Street stocks have rallied strongly in recent weeks, boosted by the view the Federal Reserve is done hiking interest rates and may begin to…
