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Overvalued US stocks weaken FCIs’ signal effects – ECB research

Policy-makers should not be blinded by inflated equity prices, authors say

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Overvalued US equities are weakening the effects of monetary policy tightening, new research from the European Central Bank shows.

In a study released today (June 17), ECB economists Cajsa Klass and Ana-Simona Manu examine financial condition indexes (FCIs) and stock prices in the US.

They find that the adverse effect of a tightening FCI on US activity is “considerably weaker” when the equity market is overvalued.

The researchers note that despite having fallen from a peak cyclically adjusted price

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