Thursday 2 July 2015

US stock valuations "can't be supported" if interest rates rise

US stocks look expensive, according to Jim Rothenberg, chairman of Capital Group Companies.

In an interview with FinanceAsia, he said that US companies are trading at 17-19 times earnings.

"If you hypothesise higher interest rates, those valuations can't be supported," he said.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller also thinks US stocks are expensive.

He recently told CNBC that his cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio "is higher than it's been, except 1929, 2000 and 2007", all of which were years that were followed by large market losses.

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