JPMorgan Says S&P 500 Will Rise 18% by End of 2010

(Bloomberg) -- The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will rally 18 percent to 1,300 next year as the economy recovers and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke holds down interest rates, said Thomas J. Lee, the chief U.S. equity strategist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The forecast level represents a multiple of 14.4 times the $90 a share the bank estimates the companies in the index will earn in 2011, equity strategists led by Lee in New York said in a report dated yesterday. The S&P 500 trades for 22.2 times its combined profit in the last 12 months, the most expensive level since 2002, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

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