Paul Tudor Jones says the Fed is done raising rates, stocks to finish the year higher from here

Billionaire hedge fund supervisor Paul Tudor Jones believes the Federal Reserve has completed elevating rates of interest in its struggle towards inflation, and the inventory market might grind greater this yr.

“I positively assume they’re performed,” Jones mentioned Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Field” of the Fed’s rate-hiking marketing campaign. “They might most likely declare victory now as a result of should you take a look at CPI, it has been declining 12 straight months. … That is by no means occurred earlier than in historical past.”

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The central financial institution has raised rates of interest 10 instances since March 2022, taking the fed funds charge to a goal vary of 5%-5.25%, the very best since August 2007. The buyer value index has cooled significantly since peaking out round 9% in June 2022. The gauge eased to 4.9% in April.

The longtime investor mentioned the market setup proper now could be much like mid-2006 earlier than the worldwide monetary disaster, the place shares moved greater for over a yr after the Fed stopped tightening financial coverage.

“Fairness costs … I feel they will proceed to go up this yr,” Jones mentioned. “I am not rampantly bullish as a result of I feel it will be a gradual grind.”

For the close to time period, the investor mentioned there can be some indigestion due to the struggle to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, and he would purchase the dip on the political volatility.

Jones shot to fame after he predicted and profited from the 1987 inventory market crash. He’s additionally the chairman of nonprofit Simply Capital, which ranks public U.S. corporations primarily based on social and environmental metrics.

He believes that there is loads of dry powder that is able to be put to work after a very boring interval for deal-making actions.

“Now we have no IPOs, no calendar, no secondaries, valuations are at 19 however no person’s dashing to supply so clearly, one thing is happening internally within the inventory market,” Jones mentioned. “From a circulation standpoint, that is constructive.”