Information from Thomson Reuters over the last few weeks is exactly why I have switched over to a smoothed 10 moving average emphasis.
Raw numbers SPX earnings implied by P/E and price
2/3/17: 132.04
2/10/17: 134.81
2/17/17: 135.59
2/24/17: 133.22
Earnings cut that much over the last week?
Meanwhile the 10MA smoothed data is:
2/3/17: 131.90
2/10/17: 132.48
2/17/17: 132.58
2/24/17: 132.72
Market is acting like the latter, not the former.
So, 18x 10MA is 2389, and 19x is 2521. This is .9% to 6.5% from current levels. Valuations may soon turn into more of a headwind depending on what you think of 18x forward earnings.
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Citigroup Economic Surprise Index still looks quite healthy.