The recent change to the accounting treatment of some types of "intellectual property products" in the US national income and product accounts has resulted in a decline in the price/earnings ratio of the US stock market. (We suggested this would happen in a Global Markets Focus that we published in the spring of last year, "Increasing intangible investment – implications for equity prices".) Nonetheless, the valuation of the market still appears stretched relative to its long-run average.
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