Shares are set to advance after traders in New York looked past mixed US economic data and instead focused on positive earnings from the big banks. Follow here for more.
Investors are increasingly betting on a soft landing for the global economy, while big technology stocks are getting even more crowded on the expected boon to profits from artificial intelligence.
Those are key findings of Bank of America’s July global survey, conducted in the week through July 13. Sixty-eight per cent of surveyed fund managers expect an economic slowdown without a recession, while corporate profit expectations are now the least pessimistic since February last year.In another sign of improving risk sentiment, investors are the least underweight global stocks this year, according to BofA.
Being long big tech stocks topped the list of most crowded trades, while 42 per cent of polled fund managers say AI will increase profits over the next two years. Investors now see the Federal Reserve reducing interest rates in the second quarter of 2024, according to BofA; in last month’s survey they predicted a cut in the first quarter.
This year’s powerful rally in US equities is facing a reckoning in the second half as strategists warn about frothy valuations in technology shares, rising economic risks and headwinds to corporate earnings. While some Bank of America poll indicators pointed to increasing optimism, the bank’s broad measure of fund manager sentiment, based on cash positions, equity allocation and economic growth expectations, remains “stubbornly low,” strategists led by Michael Hartnett wrote.1 hr ago
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