Investors get rid of shares in “bulls”: Bank of America

Investors Uber upcoming emotions For us, the stocks stopped screaming during the past month.

The most recent survey of the World Bank of America’s World Funds has shown 171 participants in March the largest monthly decrease in the allocation of investors to registered American shares, with the allocation decreased by 40 % month. like Recently in DecemberThe allocation of investors to American shares was at all levels ever.

A team of strategists at Bank of America, led by Michael Hartnant, described this step in the March poll as “a bull”, with the investor’s appetite for the shares of the United States, which fell in 10 % of the clouds in the S&P 500 (S & P^Gspc) During the past month. The rotation went to money, for each bank of America, not bonds.

The fast nature of the correction in the S&P 500 It can be seen as a purchase sign. But as the Hartnet team indicates, the recent market movements are more than difficult to climb instead of a clear incentive for a contradictory trade. For example, the allocation of investor portfolio on cash increased from 3.5 % to 4.1 %, which is the largest month since December 2021. But cash levels are still much lower than the level of more than 6 % seen in October 2022 when Wall Street expected a stagnation.

Heartnit wrote that current feelings are not anywhere near “levels close to the eyes and purchase.”

and Wall Street strategists recently indicatedPart of the cause at the present time may not be a clear moment “buy” DIP is due to what the shares were sent in the first place.

The BOFA survey chart explains that 55 % of respondents believe that the greatest danger to the market is that “the trade war leads to global recession.” This represents the highest conviction in danger since the epidemic topped the list in April 2020.

But despite about 3 % of pop in stocks during the past two sessions, much in the trade war or the story of intimidation of growth has not changed during the past week.

Mike Wilson, the chief investment official of Morgan Stanley on Sunday, told “trading capacity” possible in the market. But Wilson does not see a sustainable gathering to new standard levels “so that many winds opposite growth” or the Federal Reserve resumes interest rates.

The next main test of the markets was determined on Wednesday with the decision of politics in the last federal reserve. With the markets widespread that the central bank will retain interest rates, investors will focus on any evidence about when the Central Bank can reduce prices again. The press conference of the Federal Reserve President is scheduled to be held at 2:30 pm on Wednesday.