🇺🇸 S&P 500
Last Friday, our Stock Market Bull & Bear Indicator was bullish well before the opening bell, and the S&P 500 followed through, ending the day up 0.51%.
The model gauges if the market is leaning bullish, bearish or neutral.
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🇺🇸 CPI
Goldman Sachs expects hotter US core CPI than markets in September and October, but cooler readings in November and December, meaning markets underprice near-term inflation risk while overpricing its persistence later
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🇺🇸Valuations
Appetite for risk is still there. The Nasdaq 100 and the Russell 2000 trade at 23 times forward earnings, and the S&P 500 at 19 times. Valuations look stretched, but that hasn't stopped the flow of money into stocks
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🇺🇸 Returns
The AI rally has mostly been an infrastructure trade, lifting chipmakers, data-center builders and cloud platforms while software and productivity names sit on the sidelines
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h/t @GoldmanSachs$spx#spx#ai#equity#stocks
🇺🇸 Sentiment
US retail investors are still playing defense. Even with the S&P 500 near record highs, the AAII bull‑bear spread remains negative. That's the kind of divergence contrarians love
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h/t @dailychartbook#AAII
🇺🇸 S&P 500
Year three of the presidential cycle is Wall Street's historically strongest period. With that phase just around the corner, the S&P 500 looks positioned for a solid 2027, enough to keep bulls confident
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h/t @RyanDetrick$spx#spx
🇺🇸 Sentiment
At 56.12, the Greed and Fear Index sits in neutral territory, well away from panic or euphoria. If prices hold while positioning turns more defensive, investors may find an attractive entry point in the weeks ahead
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h/t @LanceRoberts$spx