Complacency about U.S. stocks has become so widespread that losses may lie ahead, according to Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets. In a report Friday, Belski cited the ratio of the S&P 500 Index’s price-earnings ratio to the VIX Index, “which essentially shows how much investors are willing ‘to pay’ for a given level of market risk.”
As Bloomberg notes, the ratio rose this month to its highest reading since 1994.