Live Markets: Record highs without big tech leadership

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27/08/2024 17:25

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    RECORD HIGHS WITHOUT BIG TECH LEADERSHIP
    While the recovery in the S&P 500  .SPX  has yet to eclipse the July highs, owing in part to
a drag from some of the overweighted mega caps that catalyzed the record breaking rally in the
benchmark index, the equal weight S&P 500  .SPXEW  has staged one of its fastest rebounds to new
peaks ever. 
    The so-called Magnificant 7 stocks that led the way higher on a frenzy of AI enthusiasm are
all below their July highs, and the market-cap weighted S&P 500, while coming within 0.3% of
it's July 16 intraday peak on Monday is currently about 0.85% below it. 
    At the same time, the S&P 500 equal weight, a proxy for the average stock in the benchmark
index, set back-to-back record highs on Friday and Monday, an indication that the overall stock
market is healthy when the concentration of big tech is factored out.
    According to Sentimentrader.com the equal weight index took 23 trading days to go from a
record high, to at least a 5% pullback and back to a higher high. Dating back to 1957,
Sentimentrader.com analysts said in a note on Monday, this was the fifth quickest recovery,
bettered only by three in late 1982 and early 1983 and one in 2014. Notably each was a positive
signal and the equal weighted index was higher one, two, three, six and 12 months later in each
case.
    "Regardless of what the much more popular capitalization-weighted index was doing then,
these quick recoveries in the equally-weighted index tended to precede outperformance for the
equal-weight version," the note said. 
     Here is a chart from Sentimentrader.com
   
    (Alden Bentley)
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