{"id":207118,"date":"2024-02-23T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/why-a-drop-in-oil-10-years-ago-suggests-the-u-s-stock-market-is-headed-for-a-decline\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:42","slug":"why-a-drop-in-oil-10-years-ago-suggests-the-u-s-stock-market-is-headed-for-a-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/why-a-drop-in-oil-10-years-ago-suggests-the-u-s-stock-market-is-headed-for-a-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a drop in oil 10 years ago suggests the U.S. stock market is headed for a decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0003028440\" role=\"document\">\n<p>U.S. stocks and oil can sometimes move together, but a period of decline for oil ten years ago indicates potential for a steep stock market decline that may begin this summer, according to Tom McClellan, editor of The McClellan Market Report.<\/p>\n<p>In what he referred to as a \u201cfun leading indication relationship,\u201d McClellan wrote in a Thursday note that the movements of crude-oil prices<br \/>\n        <a data-track-hover=\"QuotePeek\" data-charting-symbol=\"FUTURE\/US\/XNYM\/CL.1\" class=\"qt-chip negative\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/future\/CL.1?mod=MW_story_quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CL.1,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/211629951\/delayed\" class=\"negative\">-0.65%<\/bg-quote><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a data-track-hover=\"QuotePeek\" data-charting-symbol=\"FUTURE\/US\/XNYM\/CLJ24\" class=\"qt-chip negative\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/future\/CLJ24?mod=MW_story_quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLJ24,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/209724560\/delayed\" class=\"negative\">-0.65%<\/bg-quote><\/a><br \/>\n       \u201ctend to show up again as stock price movements about 10 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>He admits that he doesn\u2019t have a good explanation as to why this relationship works, but believes it has been working for the most part ever since the Dow Jones Industrial Average<br \/>\n        <a data-track-hover=\"QuotePeek\" class=\"qt-chip positive\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/index\/DJIA?mod=MW_story_quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJIA<\/a><br \/>\n       was first created back in 1896. \u201cAt some point, when there is this much evidence, one can let go of the quest for the \u2018why\u2019, and accept the \u2018is\u2019,\u201d said McClellan.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline&#10;                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"&#10;          media-object&#10;          type-InsetMediaIllustration&#10;            inline&#10;  article__inset&#10;          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration&#10;            article__inset--inline&#10;  \">\n<p>          <!-- eventually when we know what this card will be we can change it and leave this one --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"&#10;        media-object-image&#10;        enlarge-image&#10;        img-inline&#10;        article__inset__image&#10;      \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:59.14285714285714%;\" data-subtype=\"photo\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=540&amp;size=1.6901408450704225 540w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=620&amp;size=1.6901408450704225 620w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=639&amp;size=1.6901408450704225 639w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=700&amp;size=1.6901408450704225 700w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=700&amp;size=1.6901408450704225&amp;pixel_ratio=1.5 1050w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=700&amp;size=1.6901408450704225&amp;pixel_ratio=2 1400w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=700&amp;size=1.6901408450704225&amp;pixel_ratio=3 2100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 979px) 620px, (max-width: 1299px) 540px, 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-71498551?width=700&amp;height=414\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>\n      <\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\">Crude-oil price movements have shown up as stock price movements 10-years later, says Tom McClellan, editor of The McClellan Market Report.<\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            McClellan Financial Publications<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chart from McClellan shows a sharp fall in oil prices between June 2014 and January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The boom in U.S. fracking was underway in 2014, boosting oil production, and to keep prices up in the face of that new supply, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was trying to cut output, then gave up that fight in the summer of 2014, said McClellan. Oil prices then dropped through January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>If the 10-year lag-time relationship between oil and stock market continues to work, \u201cas it has worked for more than a century,\u201d that would mean a big decline for the stock market between June 2024 and January 2026 \u2014 the magnitude of which is unknown, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stock prices in 2018 echoed the big oil-price crash 10 years earlier, that was part of the collapse of the generalized commodities bubble in 2008, but it was a much more quiet down move in stocks during 2018, said McClellan.<\/p>\n<p>The big bear market of 1929 to 1932, meanwhile, unfolded \u201con schedule,\u201d and echoed the collapse of the Texas oil boom which started to unfold in 1920, but the stock market fell much harder than oil had suggested, he said.<\/p>\n<p>So if anyone is going to employ this \u201cfun leading indication relationship\u201d between oil and the stock market, they\u2019ll need to keep a few things in mind, said McClellan.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year lag is not always precisely 10.0 years, he said. \u201cSometimes the stock market\u2019s actual turns vary from that ideal lag time by a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The magnitudes of crude oil\u2019s movements, meanwhile, do not necessarily get echoed by the stock market, said McClellan. \u201cThis model is more about the timing of the turns than the severity of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, on occasion, an \u201cexogenous event can come along and disrupt things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The March 2020 \u201cCovid Crash\u201d is not something which crude oil appears to have known was coming but after that event, the major stock market averages \u201cworked extra hard to get back on track,\u201d he said. And in 1990 to 1991, when oil prices briefly doubled after Iraq attacked Kuwait, then collapsed back down again to their prior price levels, stocks did not echo that \u201canomalous spike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, based on the leading indication model, McClellan said he\u2019s confident in his expectations that the period between June 2024 and January 2026 is \u201cnot going to be a great time for the stock market, and also not great for whoever wins the November 2024 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On that same basis, he said he looks forward to the \u201cbig bull market which this model says is coming between 2026 and 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude have stuck to a tight trading range, with a less than $10-per-barrel difference between the highs and lows in prices, which could make for a quieter trading period for the domestic stock market roughly 10 years from now.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-a-drop-in-oil-10-years-ago-suggests-the-u-s-stock-market-is-headed-for-a-decline-1a3b701b?mod=mw_rss_topstories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] U.S. stocks and oil can sometimes move together, but a period of decline for oil ten years ago indicates potential for a steep stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342993,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207118\/revisions\/342993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}