Episode
Valuation is a thermometer, not a clock
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- The Living Market Podcast
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- Jul 23, 2026
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- 416
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Summary
Astronomers predicted the April 2024 solar eclipse to the second. Not one of them can tell you what the S&P 500 will do next Tuesday. That gap, says Philip Petursson, Chief Investment Strategist at IG Wealth Management, is the point. Right now, the CAPE ratio, a widely followed measure that compares the total value of the U.S. stock market against the size of the U.S. economy, is at an all-time high, and the headlines are getting louder. Philip explains why that number is less alarming than it sounds, why measures like this are reliable guides for long-term returns but almost useless when predicting short-term market movements, and what valuation is genuinely useful for.