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S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time HighDoug Short • Tue, May 7
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S&P 500 Snapshot: May Is Off To A Bad StartDoug Short • Thu, May 2
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S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time HighDoug Short • Tue, May 7
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S&P 500 Snapshot: May Is Off To A Bad StartDoug Short • Thu, May 2
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S&P 500 Snapshot: New All-Time HighDoug Short • Tue, Apr 30
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- Tuesday, February 19, 10:29 AM Of the $37.5B of flows into ETFs this year, 92% has gone into stock funds, according to ConvergEx, well above the typical ratio of 65-70%. U.S. stocks garnered the biggest share at 42%, while Japanese ETFs (see WETF) saw 8%. Dividend ETFs (DVY) have received nearly $4B already this year vs. $9B for all of 2012. Previous: "Fear fatigue." Comment!
- Tuesday, February 19, 8:02 AM "I think we're seeing fear fatigue," says money manager Darell Krasnoff. Clients of his out of stocks for some time are calling and asking to get back in. It's the same story at Fidelity and Schwab (SCHW), both seeing marked increases in trading activity. The Vix (VXX)? It declines even on days when the markets sell off. 29 Comments
- Thursday, February 14, 10:46 AM A strong January forced short-sellers to cover their bets in several prominent ETFs, with both SPY and IWM seeing an 11% reduction in the percentage of their float shorted. The MSCI EAFE Index Fund (EFA) - with heavy exposure to Europe - saw a 24% reduction in shorts. Seeing an increase in activity is the SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) - 259% of the fund's float is now being shorted. Comment!
- Thursday, February 14, 8:37 AM Stock index futures rebound from sizable losses thanks to the low print on jobless claims and the Berkshire/Heinz deal. By our count, that's two $20B deals announced in February alone. S&P 500 -0.15%. 2 Comments
- Wednesday, February 13, 10:42 AM Calling it "macro protection trading," Susquehanna's Chris Jacobson is seeing some take advantage of the low cost of SPY and Russell 2000 (IWM) options to get defensive. Popular is the "put butterfly" which works best in a slow grind lower. He's also seeing "calendar spreads" which protect against a selloff, but then make an owner a buyer if stocks fall too far. 2 Comments
- Tuesday, February 12, 9:00 AM Average cash balances remain at 3.8%, but those overweight cash falls to 2% (from 8%), the lowest read since February 2011, according to the BAML Fund Manager Survey. The favorite sector, though, is a defensive one - Pharmaceuticals (XPH), with those overweight it rising to 27% from 11%. Technology (XLK) saw the biggest drop, a 12 points swing lower in those overweight. Comment!
- Monday, February 11, 12:37 PM "Asset prices have moved a long way," says the team at Goldman, downgrading global equities from Buy to Neutral. Maybe not yet priced in, they say, is the economic drag from government cost-cutting (what cost-cutting?). Get ready to buy the dips though, as any sell-off should be shallow and short. Comment!
- Friday, February 8, 10:11 AM Soaring optimism from investment newsletter writers means losses ahead for stocks, writes Jason Goepfert. Going back to 2000, there have been 9 other times when sentiment rose to these levels, he says, and in each of those cases the S&P was lower a month later, with the median loss 3.1%. In 8 out of 9 cases, the S&P was lower 6 months later, with the median loss 4.25%. 3 Comments
- Thursday, February 7, 8:13 AM More from Grantham: Courtesy of the donkey-beatings, all global assets are once again becoming overpriced, but not uniformly so. Pockets of value can be found in emerging markets (EEM) and Japan (DXJ), and the great global franchise companies. Much of everything else is "brutally overpriced," with U.S. stocks selling at an implied negative 7-year imputed return ... As for fixed income - fugetaboutit!." 5 Comments [Global & FX, U.S. Economy]
- Wednesday, February 6, 8:15 AM Insiders are selling at an alarming pace, writes Mark Hulbert, noting the Vickers insider sell-to-buy ratio has jumped to 9.2:1, the highest level since right before summer 2011's big selloff. The ratio was high in December as well, but this could have had to do with upcoming higher taxes. What's the excuse now? 7 Comments
- Monday, February 4, 9:08 AM Stock fund inflows - combining mutual funds and ETFs - summed to $77.4B in January, according to TrimTabs, smoking the previous record of $53.7B (when else, February 2000). "We increasingly do not like what we see ... Investors are piling into stocks ... while companies are no longer supporting share prices." (uh, UTX just announced a $5.4B repurchase program). 5 Comments
- Monday, February 4, 7:31 AM S&P futures -0.3%, Nasdaq 100 -0.3% amidst political jitters in the EU-periphery (I, II). The Stoxx 50 -1.1%, led by Italy -2.5% and Spain -2.1%. Comment!
- Saturday, February 2, 9:00 AM "We told you so." Seriously? Barron's thumps its chest in the sort of self-congratulatory, bullish article that could give a fan of stocks pause. "If there's a great rotation going on from bonds to stocks, we may be only in the top of the first inning," says Jason Trennert. The 60/40 stocks/bonds mix is out of favor with many institutional investors, notably big college endowments, which now have 27% of assets in stocks vs. 45% a decade ago. 156 Comments
- Friday, February 1, 10:52 AM If the NAAIM Survey of Manager Sentiment was "off the charts" bullish in the high 80s, what is it now? The index rises to the unheard of level of 104.25, meaning the average respondent is now leveraged long. The most bearish manager is 60% net long - the most bullish position for the most bearish respondent ever. 97 Comments
- Friday, February 1, 10:11 AM Stocks move to session highs following the big ISM beat, not to mention better-than-expected sentiment numbers. S&P 500 +0.9% and the DJIA is just 10 points shy of 14K. Treasurys give up most of their post-payroll report gains. Comment!
- Thursday, January 31, 9:30 AM Up 5.31% so far this month, the S&P 500 is on track for its best January since 1997 - happy news for the "as January goes, so goes the year" crowd. Maybe of more interest: Apple - the S&P's highest-weighted member - is also the worst-performer, -14.3%. Has there ever been an instance when the index has done so well while its largest holding did so poorly? 7 Comments
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discrepancy between index and etfs: S&P 500 up 1%, SPY up .4%, SSO up more than 2%. Why? - View all 2 replies
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TheRocketTrader: I think SPY went ex-dividend - so compared to yesterday's close it is up only .4%, but it is up greater in reality
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humahuaca: thanks JCH looking forward to contributing what I can haha I guess campus glass did the same as I did, chose a stock pic from acer
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Stock Junky: lots of bearishness too, i would not discount that this crazy mkt rips up 1st ABOVE 200dma & chase out shorts- then start its big decline.
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