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CureVac AG Chief Executive Dr. Franz-Werner Haas is shown on the NasdaqMarketSite video facade in Times Square, virtually ringing the closing bell, marking his company’s Aug. 14 listing.
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Fund managers are the most bullish they have been since the pandemic, according to the latest survey from Bank of America released on Tuesday.
A net 12% were overweight equities, an increase of seven percentage points since July, according to the latest survey. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.23% has climbed 51% from its March lows, and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.72% has surged 62% on its way to 33 record highs.
Bank of America’s monthly fund-manager survey finds a plurality now accepting the stock market is in a bull phase versus a bear-market rally by a 46%-to-35% margin. In July, 47% still thought it was a bear-market rally versus 40% believing stocks were in a bull market.
The net percentage of investors expecting global profits to improve over the next 12 months shot up 21 percentage points to 57%, the highest level since March 2017, as those who say companies are overleveraged fell by 10 percentage points.
The fund managers, meanwhile, aren’t convinced by the rally in gold. A net 31% say gold is overvalued, the highest percentage since 2011, and the percentage who say an equal-weighted stock, bond and gold portfolio is overvalued is the highest since 2008. Gold on Tuesday was back above the $2,000 mark. It’s up 31% this year.
There was the beginning of a rotation to an inflation trade, as investors are increasingly buying up eurozone and emerging-markets stocks as the dollar weakens. Materials, banks and small stocks also were more in demand as bonds, cash, U.S. and technology fell out of favor somewhat.
A total of 203 panellists with $518 billion in assets under management participated in the survey.
