(Bloomberg) — Bank of America Corp. strategists expect US stock-market outperformance to continue to fade after a relentless run was halted in the early part of 2025. Most Read from Bloomberg Equity markets including Brazil, Germany, the UK, China and Canada have all yielded higher returns than Wall Street’s S&P 500 year to date, noted…
Bank of America sees small-cap stocks as key indicator to watch for the broader stock market. High concentration in a handful of stocks and elevated valuations limit stock market upside, BofA said. Small-cap stocks face challenges from high interest rates, affecting profitless companies. Bank of America said in a Friday note that one key area…
US stocks have looked sluggish at times over the past several weeks as rising rates and debate over whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in 2025 sent the S&P 500 (^GSPC) to its lowest levels since the election. But a better-than-expected inflation reading on Wednesday helped US markets perk up, and Bank of…
The Wall Street bull statue is pictured in Manhattan, New York. Carlo Allegri | Reuters A closely watched survey of global fund managers registered its lowest cash allocation on record this month, underscoring a bullishness on stocks as the equity market nears the end of a strong year. The average cash allocation level of participants…
Investors are growing increasingly bullish as the stock market rally rolls on to end 2024. In Bank of America’s December Global Fund Manager Survey, 36% of respondents said they’re overweight US equities, the highest level seen in the survey’s history. This large shift into US stocks came alongside a record-low allocation to cash and a…
Relentless rallies in multiple risk assets into the year-end have caused widely followed strategist Michael Hartnett to sound the alarm on a bubble forming. The price of bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, the S & P 500 and the blue-chip Dow notched more record…
Investors are piling into stocks in a way to a degree not seen for more than a decade. Bank of America’s global fund manager survey showed the percentage of portfolio managers who are overweight U.S. stocks soared to 29% — its highest level since August 2013 — from 10% before the U.S. presidential election. Stocks…