Interest Rates and the Stock Market
Interest rates have two important effects on the stock market:
1) they affect overall economic growth
2) they affect price-to-earnings ratios.
Charting out these relationships is useful for understanding market trends. Consumer spending drives corporate profits and, ultimately, affects the stock market. Because interest rates affect consumer spending, they can also affect the market.
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