Cathie Wood: Market Misjudging Inflation Trajectory, Inflation Data May Be Below Market Expectations

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/18 17:30:15
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BlockBeats News, January 18th, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated, "The experience of the past few years tells us that the trend of declining inflation has been very clear. However, inflation has remained stagnant in the official report data. Many people are wondering, with current market valuations close to historical highs, if this looks like a prelude to a pullback. Looking back at history, starting from the 1990s until around 1997, and the early 2000s, during the process of declining valuation multiples, the market still experienced very strong gains. We must assume that valuations will be compressed, and this compression assumption is included in the bottom-up analysis of each company."

Nevertheless, we remain fairly optimistic about the inflation outlook for several main reasons: first is oil prices, and second is housing prices. You can see that homebuilder KB Home has already reduced home prices by 7%, with other companies following suit. In addition, there is a significant improvement in productivity, and unit labor costs are decreasing significantly. Therefore, there are currently multiple deflationary pressures. The last factor I want to mention is technology."

Our focus is entirely on technology-driven innovation, covering robotics, energy storage, artificial intelligence (especially), blockchain technology, and multiomic sequencing in the healthcare field. We believe that inflation data is likely to be lower than market expectations."

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