“in light of the resulting volatility and the precarious position of indices, this could be the most important earnings season in nearly a decade…
the run up to the highs earlier this year was because earnings estimates were being revised upwards across the board.”
“Despite all of that, however, the market has fallen dramatically, as traders and investors focus on future risks, rather than past performance and current economic fundamentals…the last two times forward P/E have declined this quickly were during the Greek debt crisis in 2010 and in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in 2008”
“But they lived happily ever after, because this can’t be 2008 all over again”