{"id":12988,"date":"2016-03-14T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2016-03-14T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:15:25","slug":"theres-only-one-buyer-keeping-sp-500s-bull-market-alive-bloomberg-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/14\/theres-only-one-buyer-keeping-sp-500s-bull-market-alive-bloomberg-business\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Only One Buyer Keeping S&#038;P 500&#8217;s Bull Market Alive | Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-14\/there-s-only-one-buyer-keeping-the-s-p-500-s-bull-market-alive\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/488x-1.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Lu Wang:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index constituents are poised to repurchase as much as $165 billion of stock this quarter, approaching a record reached in 2007. The buying contrasts with rampant selling by clients of mutual and exchange-traded funds, who after pulling $40 billion since January are on pace for one of the biggest quarterly withdrawals ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-14\/there-s-only-one-buyer-keeping-the-s-p-500-s-bull-market-alive\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/488x-11.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;..David Kostin, the chief U.S. equity strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said companies tend to enact a blackout period and restrict share repurchases in the month following the end of a calendar quarter, and come back once they\u2019ve reported results. In a market where everyone else is selling, the ebb and flow of corporate actions have amplified volatility. The S&amp;P 500 slumped 11 percent in the first six weeks of the year before staging a rebound that has since trimmed the drop to about 1 percent&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-14\/there-s-only-one-buyer-keeping-the-s-p-500-s-bull-market-alive\">There&#8217;s Only One Buyer Keeping S&amp;P 500&#8217;s Bull Market Alive &#8211; Bloomberg Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lu Wang: Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index constituents are poised to repurchase as much as $165 billion of stock this quarter, approaching a record reached in 2007. 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