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(Bloomberg) — Have stocks stopped being expensive? Among bulls, hope is coalescing around valuation metrics that could support that view, though with so many caveats they require a big dose of courage to heed. Most Read from Bloomberg After falling 15% this year, the S&P 500 is trading around 4,000. According to analysts tracked by Bloomberg, its members will earn a combined $248 a share next year. Divide price by earnings, and the result is a forward multiple of 16 — roughly in line with… Source link

Retail investors haven’t lost confidence in the bull market in stocks (yet) despite a tough start to the year, according to new data from Bank of America’s strategy team of Savita Subramanian and Jill Carey Hall. “BofA Securities clients were small net buyers of U.S. equities the first week of 2022 ($0.5 billion), during which the S&P 500 fell 1.9%. Clients bought both ETFs and stocks. Retail and hedge funds clients led the buying last week while institutional clients began the year with… Source link

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link