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by ultraluminous 2375 days ago
If you're referring to "...investors have been cashing out of US stocks at a record pace", than to further clarify - investors are divesting out of the public stock market entirely. They're not selling their Apple stock in a buyback to invest the proceeds of the sale into an exciting IPO, or a deep value small cap. They're just taking it out of entirely. Think what that implies about the macro structure of a "market economy" when the majority of new money going into stocks is executive/company initiated stock buy backs, and not "investment".
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Macro, it seems to mean that owners believe in their companies and want more equity. Hardly a bad thing unless you're trying to predict the next recession
You don't have to "believe" if you are planning on getting out before the chumps do. It's like robbing a bank, only legally.