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Look beyond the averages and you will see that it's not so much financial markets overall as a narrow slice of them doing well. https://russellinvestments.com/
by T-A 3y ago
Look beyond the averages and you will see that it's not so much financial markets overall as a narrow slice of them doing well.
https://russellinvestments.com/us/blog/market-concentration-magnificent-seven https://russellinvestments.com/us/blog/market-concentration-...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/peak-us-stock-concentration-doesnt-mean-steep-drawdown-2024-03-12/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/peak-us-stock-concentrati...
Late stage bull markets tend to look like this: still going up, but mostly due to a shrinking number of stocks which benefit from mass reallocation out of everything else.
- legitster 3y agoA trend people are missing out on - in 2020, we crossed an important milestone: more than half of the baby boom generation is now retired. So we are seeing huge gobs of investments/pensions being pulled out of stock markets and being put into bonds or cash. The expectation is to see a decrease in the amount of money in the stock market but better returns in the money that remains.
- jrs235 3y agoAnd with fewer people producing (but still consuming, they're retired...) we have less supply (and same or more demand) of goods and services also leading to continuing inflation.