Stock Market Outlook 2015

The economy faces headwind next year due to the likelihood of Federal Reserve Fed Funds Rate hikes. However, the latest economic data has been super, and I’m not exaggerating in using that word. So will economic robustness be enough to stave off the weight of rate hikes then and allow stocks to march through 2015? I think that barring any unseen event burden, U.S. stocks might pull out an average or better performance of at least 10% thanks to our relative strength and special investment opportunity versus troubled markets overseas. See my entire Stock Market Outlook 2015 here.

Market Sector Security	YTD
SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY)	+15.1%
SPDR Dow Jones (NYSE: DIA)	+11.3%
PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq: QQQ)	+22.2%
iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE: IWM)	+7.0%
Vanguard Total Stock Market (NYSE: VTI)	+14.0%