{"id":358264,"date":"2025-12-19T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:37:14","slug":"a-market-indicator-from-bank-of-america-just-triggered-a-sell-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358264\/","title":{"rendered":"A market indicator from Bank of America just triggered a sell signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be trouble ahead for stocks. Bank of America&#8217;s Bull &amp; Bear indicator, a gauge of sentiment in markets, rose to 8.5 this week, from 7.9. That puts it in &#8220;extreme bullish&#8221; territory and signals investors to sell. These indicators are not to be taken lightly. BofA strategist Michael Hartnett pointed out that this measure has flashed a sell warning 16 times since 2002. Subsequently, the MSCI All Country World Index has fallen by 2.4% on average in the next two months, while the S &amp; P 500 averages a 1.2% decline. .SPX YTD mountain SPX year to date Stocks have struggled lately as investors worry about valuations on artificial intelligence-related names. The S &amp; P 500 is down 1.1% in December, on pace to snap a seven-month advance. The S &amp; P 500 tech sector, the biggest by market cap weighting, is down 2.5% month-to-date. Yet, the S &amp; P 500 remains 15.2% higher for the year and set a record closing high earlier this month. On top of that, inflows into equities remain strong. Hartnett noted that equity ETFs raked in $145 billion this week, a record. Money flowing into U.S. stocks alone reached $77.9 billion, the second-most ever. But if BofA&#8217;s track record is any indication, along with the S &amp; P 500 struggling to stay above key technical levels, investors may want to at least pare positions heading into the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There may be trouble ahead for stocks. Bank of America&#8217;s Bull &amp; Bear indicator, a gauge of sentiment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[122,88,113,117,114],"class_list":["post-358264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-business-news","tag-entertainment","tag-investment-strategy","tag-sp-500-index","tag-stock-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}