JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday called the U.S. stock market inflated and said he felt more cautious than others in the business world because of the risks from deficit spending, inflation and geopolitical upheaval.
“Asset prices are kind of inflated, by any measure. They are in the top 10% or 15%” of historical valuations, Dimon told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Dimon said that he was speaking specifically about the American stock market, which is in the midst of a multiyear bull run.
The S&P 500 had back-to-back annual gains of more than 20% in 2023 and 2024, the first time that has happened in over 25 years. Last year, Dimon even called the shares of his own company expensive.
On Wednesday, Dimon also noted that parts of the bond market, like sovereign debt, are “at all-time highs.”
“So yeah, they’re elevated, and you need fairly good outcomes to justify those prices,”…