Billionaire investor Kenneth Fisher said the biggest U.S. companies will lead global stocks in 2011 even as returns diminish after a 21-month bull market.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has risen 88 percent from its March 2009 low as the Federal Reserve pledged to stimulate the economy and companies reported better-than-estimated earnings. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index advanced 134 percent, while the Russell 2000 Index of small companies rallied 130 percent during that period.
“America will do better than the rest of the world,” Fisher, 60, who oversees $41 billion at Woodside, California-based Fisher Investments Inc., said in a Bloomberg Television interview today on “Surveillance Midday” with Tom Keene. “People will move away from small cap and emerging markets and more toward boring things that evidence quality.”
Timken Co., a U.S. maker of bearings and alloy steel products, is a company that will do well in a “middle phase” of a bull market, Fisher said. Profits are expected to increase for a fifth quarter when it reports earnings around Feb. 2, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The stock has risen almost fivefold since March 2009. (more)
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