No worries...this bull sees a strong market going into 2019
Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says stocks will return up to 15%: 'We could have quite a good year'
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Published 11:43 AM ET Wed, 2 Jan 2019Updated 12:22 PM ET Wed, 2 Jan 2019CNBC.com
- Finance professor Jeremy Siegel says stocks could rally between 5 and 15 percent in the new year.
- He says he is not worried about the Fed raising interest rates, that a recession is not in the cards, and based on current valuations this is a "cheap market."
- "There's been a wobble here and that is what the market feels," Siegel says. "We'll be wobbling to a slowdown but not a recession."
Despite the market's stumble into the new year, Wharton's Jeremy Siegel is predicting solid gains for stocks by the end of 2019.
The Wharton School finance professor is predicting an uptick of between 5 and 15 percent and "quite a good year" for equity markets.
"We went from a rosy view to now, 'Oh my God, there's going to be a recession,'" Siegel told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Wednesday. "The truth will be somewhere in between, and that leaves the stock market very attractive now."