Stocks care about nominal numbers like earnings
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-31 22:27
Stocks care about nominal GDP. Generally when when people like us talk about GDP, we talk about real GDP, which is GDP, you know, after inflation. Stocks don't care about that.Earnings are nominal numbers. So like if we have an eight or nine or 10% nominal GDP growth sort of figure, which is kind of what we think we're going to get for the first half, that means that just sort of the average company, if they just sort of hang around and just do the the general economic thing, is it going to have earnings gr ...