Stock investors’ focus on increased credit risks also doesn’t bode well for the third-quarter earnings season, which kicks off next week, Citi strategists said. US index futures were down about 0.8% on Wednesday after the biggest two-day gain for the S&P 500 since April 2020. Stocks have rallied in the first days of October, partly on bets that recent weakness in economic data could prompt the Fed to tone down its hawkish policy, but a slate of strategists has warned it’s too soon to expect the central bank to shift gears. READ: Wall Street Sees S&P Falling Further After Bear-Market Bounce and Bank of America Corp., who are concerned that the S&P 500 has yet to bottom out even as it posted three straight quarters of declines - its first such streak since the global financial crisis. The bearish view echoes similar calls from other investment banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

“We are still in the early stage of positioning for recession” and there’s “more downside risk for the market and the earnings season,” Hong wrote in a note dated Oct. quantitative strategists say they’re only just starting to reflect the risks of a recession.Ī team led by Hong Li said equity markets had “turned decidedly defensive” and that they could come under further pressure as they continue to be “heavily driven” by heightened bond market volatility as well as concerns around persistent inflation and a staunchly hawkish Federal Reserve. (Bloomberg) - US stocks just posted a rare streak of quarterly declines and are in a bear market, but Citigroup Inc.

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