Ed Easterling lo pone negro sobre blanco en su libro "Probable Outcomes: Secular Stock Market Insights"
Esencialmente lo que impulsa a las bolsas son los beneficios por acción y estos están muy relacionados con el crecimiento económico. Y al parecer un descenso del 1% en el crecimiento del GDP del 3% al 2% provoca una caída media de los beneficios del 9% y una caída media de la bolsa del 26%.
A medio plazo, si no hay crecimiento económico, las empresas no crecen sus beneficios y las bolsas no van a ningún lado.
Te pego un trozo del capítulo donde lo explica:
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Probable Outcomes explores the possibility that future real economic growth, excluding inflation, may have downshifted from its historical trend of 3%. This major issue has not often been considered. In the past century, real economic growth has increased at slightly more than 3% annually. As a result of the relationship between earnings and the economy, EPS has increased at near 3% in real terms.
Therefore the range of the past P/E cycles has been driven by real growth near 3%. That level of growth has been considered a standard assumption. The recent decade and other factors are now challenging that assumption for the future.
One effect of slower economic and earnings growth is a lower level of earnings in the future. For example, over ten years, $1.00 compounds to $1.34 at 3%, but only to $1.22 at 2%. The difference is about 9.3% less EPS for the stock market under the slower growth scenario. Many analysts would consider that level of variance a minor forecasting error for EPS over a decade. Whether the stock market is 9% higher or lower in a decade is generally small change in the context of overall returns. But the implication of slower growth is far more significant than simply the ending level of earnings. Slower growth is a game changer.
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El resto del capítulo lo puedes leer aquí:
http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/john_mauldins_outside_the_box/archive/2011/03/14/game-changer.aspx