Biggest S&P 500 Skeptic Trahan Boosts Forecast After Rally

  • UBS’s strategist increases year-end target to 3,250 from 3,000
  • Revision comes after stocks blew past last year’s estimate
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Wall Street’s most pessimistic equity strategist scrapped a call that U.S. stocks would fall in 2020 after a market surge late last year that almost nobody saw coming.

Francois Trahan, head of U.S. equity strategy at UBS Group AG, raised his year-end target for the S&P 500 Index to 3,250 from a previous target of 3,000 set in November. His old forecast was tied with that of Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson as the lowestBloomberg Terminal among those tracked by Bloomberg.