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August’s stock market gains are set to punish bears

However, divergence between U.S. stocks—up $1.9 trillion in 2018—and foreign markets may unsettle

U.S. stocks are outperforming international stocks by a wide margin

Was Scott Minerd patently wrong earlier this month with his bearish predictions for the U.S. stock market, as Wall Street rises to fresh records and continues to outperform international peers by a wide margin?

This isn’t a rhetorical question, but a genuine query as Wall Street investors enter the final throes of the dog days of summer.

‘If there were ever a moment to harvest gains…it is August 2018,’ warns Guggenheim’s Minerd

About two weeks ago, the chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners wondered aloud,

whether the market’s optimism about stocks was misplaced: “If there were ever a moment to harvest gains and reduce risk, it is August 2018. And if it turns out not to be the moment, I don’t think you are giving up much upside,” Minerd wrote.

With one full week remaining, the Dow Jones Industrial Average

 has gained 1.5%in August, the S&P 500 index

is up 2.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index

To be sure, those gains could be swiftly eradicated, particularly during a low-volume stretch in the market that is easily influenced by the vagaries of headlines on tariffs, White House drama and other perceived maladies that are buffeting regions of the globe. That said, the recent advances appear to be nothing to turn one’s nose up at.

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At its current pace, stock benchmarks are poised to produce the best August returns—

On top of that, the S&P 500 on Friday booked its first record close since Jan. 26 and the Nasdaq Composite and small-capitalization Russell 2000 index

joined the broad-market benchmark at all-time highs.

What’s more, the Dow Jones Transportation Average

is 1.3% short of its all-time peak hit on Aug. 21, while the Dow is 3.1% shy of its Jan. 26 record top, which ought to provide some comfort to Dow theorists who believe that the tandem moves of Wall Street’s oldest gauges can provide

Sectors that had underperformed at the start of August picked up steam in the month, with consumer discretionary












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 among the best performers among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors so far this month, along with telecommunications, information technology and health-care stocks also rising (see the month-to-date chart below with consumer discretionary in purple, telecom in yellow, tech in green and health-care in brown):

All that winning for the market has come just days after the bull market in stocks, by one measure,

Against that backdrop, investors have recently been calling out a divergence between U.S. stock performance and that of the rest of the world.

The new stock-market fear: Signs that a period of harmonious global growth is crumbling

Year to date, “the U.S. is up $1.897 trillion, as foreign markets are down $1.523 trillion,” wrote Howard Silverblatt, senior analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices in a Saturday research note (see table below).

How, the market squares that circle will determine whether Minerd’s forecast is accurate. Poor performance in the rest of the world can eventually wash up on U.S. shores. That is a point that has come into greater focus amid concerns

Uneasiness about weakening economic performance abroad, midterm elections, trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, and concerns that the differential between the rates of short-term and long-term Treasury debt, specifically the 2-year Treasury

 and the 10-year Treasury notes

known as the yield curve, could presage an economic slowdown, have persisted.

Here’s when the yield curve actually becomes a stock-market danger signal

Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan, speaking at the Jackson Hole, Wyo., symposium of central bankers on Thursday, said the yield curve is telling him that the market has

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“The shape of the curve tells me that the medium-term outlook is a little bit more sluggish than the short-run economic indicators would suggest,” Kaplan said.

“The 10-year US Treasury yield is indicating some fear among investors,” wrote Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco at the start of the week.

Meanwhile, the accuracy of Minerd’s prediction for August may be of less importance than his warning about investors being too complacent amid so many swirling variables that could deliver a sudden and lasting blow to the market.

Thus far, however, it is the current bull market that has proven lasting and durable.

A report on advance trade in goods for July is set for 8:30 a.m.

The Case-Shiller home price index for June is due at 9 a.m.

The consumer confidence index for August is set to be released at 10 a.m.

An update of GDP for the second quarter is due at 8:30 a.m. after a 4.1% initial read

Weekly jobless claims for the period ended Aug .25 will be released at 8:30 a.m.

Reports on personal income, consumer spending and core inflation are due at the same time

Consumer sentiment index will be released at 10 a.m.

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Mark DeCambre is MarketWatch's markets editor. He is based in New York. Follow him on Twitter @mdecambre.

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