{"id":681617,"date":"2010-03-03T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:403048"},"modified":"2010-03-03T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:54:00","slug":"sell-side-survey-indicates-9-upside-for-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681617","title":{"rendered":"Sell side survey indicates 9% upside for S&amp;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest survey of sell side strategists on Wall Street indicates a 9% total return over the next twelve months. Chances are it will prove correct.  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;So far in this recovery, Wall Street&#39;s bullishness on equities has closely mirrored the performance of the market,&quot; said David Bianco, head of U.S. equity strategy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Both equity sentiment and the S&amp;P 500 ended 2009 up significantly from their lows set last spring, but have been essentially flat in the first two months of this year.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bianco said this month&#39;s sell side indicator score was unchanged at 58.9% and remains in neutral territory. <\/p>\n<p>The current Buy threshold is 51.7% and the Sell threshold is 63.5%. The traditional long-term equity benchmark weighting is 60-65%, suggesting the latest indicator score reflects Wall Street&#39;s still cautious optimism. <\/p>\n<p>Based on a survey of Wall Street strategists&#39; recommended asset allocations, the sell side indicator has historically been a reliable contrary indicator.  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;In other words, it has historically been a bullish signal when Wall Street was extremely bearish, and vice versa,&quot; Mr. Bianco said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=403048\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest survey of sell side strategists on Wall Street indicates a 9% total return over the next twelve months. Chances are it will prove correct. &quot;So far in this recovery, Wall Street&#39;s bullishness on equities has closely mirrored the performance of the market,&quot; said David Bianco, head of U.S. equity strategy, Bank of America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RjP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}