Stocks are headed higher beyond an all-time high in the , although investors should expect "some kind of trim," Oppenheimer CIO John Stoltzfus said Tuesday.
"I think we have a good opportunity to rise a bit higher here on the back of the momentum that the market has behind it, and then for the market to consider how far it has come and likely will get some kind of a trim at least," he said. "I won't say we're going to get a very deep pullback."
On "Fast Money," Stoltzfus invoked a historic perspective.
"It's rare to see a first quarter of the year produce the results that we have seen among the equity indexes, even with all that is positive for equities right now," he said.
A few headwinds, however, could derail the stock market from its bullish track, Stoltzfus added.
"I think what would trigger a pullback is some kind of news out of Europe that a hurdle looks a bit steeper than expected, some kind of reversal," he said.
"We saw a beginning of the concern just last week, related to the Italian elections. It could also be a question of how China is going to manage growth without continuing to inflate that bubble that they have in housing and construction. It could also be something out of Washington where it just looks like the Washingtonians are not going to manage CR or the debt ceiling in proper fashion. Or that they're not going to be willing to revisit sequestration in time to keep it from being too broadly focused.
Stoltzfus, whose top sectors include industrials, materials, financials and energy, holds a year-end target of 1,585 for the S&P 500.
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