This podcast episode focuses on the headwinds impacting stock market growth in early 2025. Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley's CIO, discusses the negative correlation between bond yields and stock prices, highlighting the 4.5% 10-year U.S. Treasury yield as a key threshold impacting valuations. He cites several factors contributing to lowered growth expectations, including new administration policies, fading demand, and consumer affordability issues. Wilson concludes by maintaining his firm's investment strategy, favoring quality stocks in specific sectors like financials and software, while anticipating limited index-level upside in the first half of the year.
