«I do not think that is the only thing that is going on. Though, I think what has happened here is the market was extremely buoyant and arguably priced for something approaching perfection when it got a bit of a wake-up call that the economy was slowing down from last Friday's non-farm payrolls number in the US,» says Arnab Das, Global Macro Strategist-EMEA, Invesco.
So, you heard what Jim Rogers, the commodity guru, has had to say, and he says this has been long overdue and these kind of conditions are brought on by a lot of leverage across markets around the world. Do you agree? Do you think that the kind of factors that influence the markets are going to take them down even further?
Arnab Das: Well, I think it is certainly a risk. I think there has been a big build-up in public sector leverage in the US and many other countries, particularly in the West, as a result of the pandemic and to some extent, the war in Ukraine. And I think that has been a factor in keeping growth so high and in generating a boom in investment, construction, manufacturing renaissance of sorts in the US. I do not think that is the only thing that is going on.
Though, I think what has happened here is the market was extremely buoyant and arguably priced for something approaching perfection when it got a bit of a wake-up call that the economy was slowing down from last Friday's non-farm payrolls number in the US.
We have long been in the camp and I particularly continue to believe this myself that we are going to have what we call a bumpy