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Last week I tweeted a chart of a ratio I have been watching for quite a while now. That ratio tracks the performance of the iShares S&P 500 Value ETF relative to the iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF. And it looked to me at the time that the former was breaking out relative to the latter after a very long and painful period of underperformance that extends far longer than the time frame in the chart below.

Is that a breakout I spy in the value-to-growth ratio? pic.twitter.com/xuTbbc9Oor[1]

— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) September 5, 2019[2]

It’s gone on for so long, in fact, that value is now cheaper than it has ever been relative to growth – even more so than in March of 2000 at the peak of the dotcom mania, which is saying something.

Perhaps the recent reversal in #value v #growth stocks has something to do with the fact that value is now really, really cheap! pic.twitter.com/o6BJDA5aqq[3][4][5]

— jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) September 10, 2019[6]

One indicator that would suggest that this reversal in favor of value over growth may be sustainable and more than just another blip is the direction of the yield curve. As noted recently by John Authers, value seems to benefit from a steepening yield curve. And, because the Fed recently began lowering short-term interest rates and appears to be set to continue with further cuts this year, it seems the yield curve...

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