Bear sees S&P 500 falling to 1,100
by Mark DeCambre
Market Watch
Permabear Marc Faber has some good news for you: the S&P 500 index could soar to 2,300 over the next several months, rising about 5% from its current toppy level.
But here’s the bad news: The Swiss investor, who publishes the aptly named Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, sees the large-cap benchmark shedding more than half its value, possibly over the next year.
“When it unravels, we are going to go to 1,100 on the S&P 500,” Faber told MarketWatch.
“Maybe we go first to 2,300, then we would have a perfect topping formation. A widening-top formation is about the most bearish technical formation you can have,” he said. Faber is referring to a so-called megaphone pattern, or broadening formation, which usually is associated with a sharp reversal in an upward trend for a security.