And yet, Regan's less than prescient headline notwithstanding, he made an accurate point in his teaser, namely that "regular investors are leaving."
That, as we have pounded the table week after week after week, has been the real story of 2019 -
not the relentless, artificial melt-up in the market on the back of a
dovish reversal by central banks and the daily US-China trade talk
"optimism" which we now know is not happening.
Confirming that this trend continued for one more week, even as the
S&P hit new all time highs, Bank of America's strategist Jill Carey
Hall writes that last week, during which the S&P 500 was up +0.2%,
virtually everyone sold stocks, as "Institutional clients, hedge funds
and private clients sold the highs in equities last week." And yet,
somehow the S&P hit a new all time high. How? The answer: "Corporate buybacks ramped up."
このトレンドが更にもう一週続くことを確認して、S&Pが新高値となっても、BoAストラテジストのJill Carey Hallは先週こういう記事を書いた、S&P500が０．２％上昇しほとんど誰もが株式を売る中でこういう記事を書いたのだ、「法人顧客、ヘッジファンド、個人顧客は先週の高値で株式を売った」。それでもS&Pは新高値をつけた。どうしてか？その答えは：「自社株買いが積み上がった。」
As BofA elaborates, "buying was led by corporate buybacks, as
all other groups (hedge funds, institutional and retail clients) were
net sellers of equities for the second consecutive week." This
means that for one more week, traditional investors were - as Regan
noted above - boycotting stocks, and were delighted to sell stock back
to the companies that were once again aggressively buying back their own
stock with the S&P hitting all time highs, to wit:
Clients were net sellers of single stocks (2nd straight week), but continued to buy ETFs (8th straight week). Cumulative flows into ETFs YTD turned positive, reversing outflows seen earlier this year (Chart 1).
Buybacks last week were their highest since early Feb: they tend to
be strong during earnings seasons and seasonally peak in mid/late May. Buybacks YTD are +20% YoY, though the growth rate continues to decline.
But if everyone else was selling, how did buybacks offset the selling
avalanche? Simple: according to BofA's stock repurchase desk, "buybacks
last week were their highest since early Feb: they tend to be strong
during earnings seasons and seasonally peak in mid/late May. Buybacks YTD are +20% YoY, though the growth rate continues to decline."
While this means that we can once and for all forget about the
recurring lie of a buyback blackout period - which as we explained
before applies only to a very narrow subset of stock repurchases - it
also means that we have reached a level of market lethargy where stock
buybacks are powerful enough to offset all other selling. .
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