To find that low a level
of bearishness in recent years you have to go back to the week of April 3, 1998.
Sugar (SUG / USD) started to show signs of
bearishness in February 2017 when it generated a lower high of 0.2146.
-LRB-...) their bets against the bonds of «core» eurozone countries — not just France, but Germany and the Netherlands too — represent a new, deeper level of
bearishness on the single currency area's prospects.
I put the odds on a short term bounce here with the
extreme bearishness of investor surveys, how oversold the market is, and the high level of put open interest.
Meanwhile, investment
advisory bearishness remains below the important 30 % level, and the CBOE volatility index hit a fresh low as recently as last Friday.
Bearishness about Mexico's output prevailed early in 2017: Estimates of 1 % growth reflected negative US rhetoric and bond - rating agency skepticism.
In the days since, many analysts and «experts» have irrationally turned sour on the Asian country, similar to the extreme
bearishness toward gold in the last month.
Likewise,
high bearishness is typically not a positive early in bear markets, because the initial decline is often fairly deep.
Part of GM's cheap valuation comes from an overall
bearishness towards automakers (more on that later).
Investment advisory
bearishness remains at a low 30 % level, and the CBOE volatility index is ominously low as well.
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Bond Survey Sentiment: Moving back into the bond side of things, the bull bear spread for bonds in the weekly Twitter survey shows a bit of a correction in extreme
bearishness from the start of this year through April as bond bears tempered their views.
Hence, we remain guarded against
excessive bearishness and see GBP / USD trending modestly lower within its price channel,» explained the DBS analysts.
The downtrend in the global purchasing managers» index (PMI) continues to
fuel bearishness towards goods producers.
In addition, some remarks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk during the company's first - quarter earnings call about why some particular types of investors might want to sell Tesla stock may have
escalated bearishness toward shares.
The rush to dismiss Buffett's advice underscores the extreme level of
bearishness among investors here.
While some investors view monetary policymakers» aversion toward market jitters (preference to maintain an «anti-wolf» policy) as bullish risk and argued for
continued bearishness toward volatility, the experience in Yellowstone would serve as a counter-argument that prolonged «risk suppression» would only breed complacency.
Blame it in no small part on the
persistent bearishness and downright ugly chart pattern of Apple ($ AAPL), a former market leader and heavily - weighted stock within the Nasdaq 100 Index.
Certainly, the extreme
present bearishness on the treasury debt market is helping to support prices where they are but once that is worked off we think the downtrend in prices (meaning up - trend in yield) continues.
Composite Treasuries Sentiment: Taking a broader view of bond market sentiment (our composite bond market sentiment indicator combines the signal from futures positioning, fund flows, implied volatility, and global bond market breadth), it's readily apparent that bond market sentiment has seen a reset from relatively
stretched bearishness to just on the bullish side of neutral (i.e. the indicator is saying participants have gone from expecting higher bond yields to expecting lower bond yields).
Like any other asset class this popular, the increasingly
vocal bearishness in the financial media is something we need to be aware of.
With advisory
bearishness down to 15.6 % and the Shiller P / E recently pushing 27, the market is far beyond these thresholds in any event.
Another indication of rough seas aheadBullishness among retail investors jumped to its highest level in seven years, and
bearishness dropped to its lowest level in three years, according to the latest American Association of Individual Investors sentiment survey.
Yet
ignoring bearishness in asset prices around the world is particularly near - sighted, if for no other reason that global economic weakness is the biggest threat to the worldwide profits and the worldwide revenue of large U.S. - based corporations.
To the extent extreme
bearishness persists in the near term, its impact on global equities may be fairly indiscriminate, and we would expect our portfolios to weather some temporary volatility.
All that said, sharp price moves tend to mean - revert, slow moves tend to persist, so be wary of too
much bearishness here.
While some view the sentiment as a contrarian sign, levels of
bearishness keep growing when measured by short interest and flows to defensive stocks.
This month -
long bearishness has thus far corrected the steep, and subsequently overbought, run - up in Gold that had occurred for several months prior to that all - time high being reached.
Fairfax underwhelmed in 2016 in large part due to the company's
bearishness on the markets.
Likewise,
high bearishness is typically not a positive early in bear markets, because the initial decline is often fairly deep.
The first chart shows points in history when the S&P 500 has registered a record high within the prior 8 - week period, with
advisory bearishness (Investors Intelligence) below 27 %, and the Shiller P / E (S&P 500 divided by the 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18.
In contrast to equities, bond market sentiment has seen a notable pullback from
extreme bearishness, and ironically this could be just the thing that is required to set up the market for another push higher in bond yields.
Hot Links for Weekend Reading... David Merkel on ignoring the siren song of
bearishness in a bull market.
Perhaps even scarier than Hussman's drastic forecast is his assertion that, at this point, investors are powerless to stop the oncoming freight train
of bearishness.
And how was Fortune punished for
its bearishness?
The reason for
his bearishness on the oil price is the rise of solar and the advent of the electric car.
From an equity sentiment perspective,
bearishness has taken over.
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