Mid-week market update: If you hadn’t known that it was FOMC day, you would have looked at the closing market diary and shrugged. The S&P 500 closed only +0.3% on the day. Beneath the surface, however, a lot has been going on in the past few weeks.
Analysts who try to call the direction of the US equity market are facing an especially difficult time as they are encountering a bewildering array of both bullish and bearish sentiment readings. That’s because the stock market has bifurcated into a growth stock market and a value stock market. There is no more single stock market anymore.
This chart of the Russell 1000 Value to Russell 1000 Growth ratio tells the story. After value stocks opened a “Vaccine Monday” runaway gap last November, value stocks have made their way higher
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