AAII Sentiment Survey Results – Pessimism Reigns. What to do about it?

The only things that have changed between last week and this week’s AAII sentiment survey report are:

  1.  We have built a sentiment base below 30 read for “bullish sentiment.”
  2.  Bearishness hit an extreme above 40.
  3. The market has been basically flat for 11 trading sessions (we are around same levels as May 13 on the SPX).

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Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Poker-Playing Hedge Fund Managers Have an Edge (Bloomberg)
  2. Anchors From Fox and Chinese State TV Hold Live Debate on Trade (New York Times)
  3. The Race to Replace Larry Fink (Institutional Investor)
  4. Best Selling Country Albums of the Last 10 Years (24/7 Wall Street)
  5. Taking aim at U.S., China says provoking trade disputes is ‘naked economic terrorism’ (Reuters)
  6. The Case for a Biogen Acquisition — and 3 Potential Targets (Barron’s)
  7. Asian Fried Chicken Soars to New Heights (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Blackstone Starts Selling Out of Home-Rental Empire (Wall Street Journal)
  9. The Music Executive Behind the Country-Rap Hit ‘Old Town Road’ (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Why So Many Economic Forecasters Missed the Great Recession (Bloomberg)

China?

Source: Finviz

This is not the price action I would expect to see in Soybeans, Hogs, and Gas given all of negativity today around China.  Is something brewing?

Be in the know. 6 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. CVS Is Hosting an Investor Day as the Stock Swoons. Here’s the Case for a 40% Surge. (Barron’s)
  2. Are Stocks as Expensive as Shiller’s Measure Says? (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Catching Up With the Man Who Lost $35 Billion in One Year (Bloomberg)
  4. Strategists see Wall Street moving higher despite trade war risks: Reuters poll (Reuters)
  5. Apple and 9 other stocks that tend to heat up in the summer (MarketWatch)
  6. US declines to label China a “Currency Manipulator” in recent report – “direct intervention in foreign exchange markets by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) over the last several months appears limited.” (U.S. Treasury)