build their investment wealth through Investors who consider themselves beginners should filter potential stocks and funds using comprehensive screens as well as time-tested strategies with a knowledge of market sentiment in the back of their mind. I have found that when this happens on your chart, you are experiencing a market where a deep historical analysis is worthwhile. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, decreased by 3.1 percentage points to 24.1%. "Income growth is poised to slow, lingering excess savings This is also well below the range of the previous five years. LIVE MARKETS-Above average Individual Investor pessimism persists -AAII Every week, AAII members are invited to cast a ballot of bullish, neutral or bearish on stocks for the next six months. Hershey also raised its guidance for net sales group and earnings per share to the high end of its previous outlook. expressed are his own), Refining This supports the theory this is a short-term bullish signal. Eli Lilly also guided expected revenue up to between $31.2 billion and $31.7 billion from the prior anticipated range of $30.3 billion and $30.8 billion. *****. (1245 EDT/1645 GMT) Pessimism among individual investors stayed above average for the tenth-straight week in the latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey. Today's reading was smack dab in the middle of that recent range at 22.5%. <<. DA Davidson cited stability and increasing confidence after Teladoc's earnings. recently reverting closer to its historical average, it is now resistance. "Consumers' inclination to spend wasn't strong in March," writes Oren Klachkin, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics. The members of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) seem nervous given recent market performance. AAII members answered a special question this week that asked "if they think investors are too bullish or bearish right now." For the week ending 26 January 2022, the sentiment levels are: Bullish: 23.1% Neutral: 23.9% Bearish: 52.9% Bearish sentiment is the highest it has been in eight years, while bullish sentiment has risen slightly from an 18-month low recorded the previous week. A spate of mixed data on Friday provided market participants with lots to chew on, but did little to move the needle with respect to Fed rate hike expectations. In the first quarter, the company beat the consensus estimate of analysts polled by FactSet on revenue, while earnings per share came in below expectations for the quarter. CNBC's Michael Bloom contributed reporting. The current conditions index was revised downward slightly, offsetting a slight gain in the expectations component. an Account, Activate Welcome to the home for real-time coverage of markets brought to Meanwhile, a Reuters analysis showed the term "AI" has been used nearly twice as frequently in this quarter's conference calls of S&P 500 SPX companies as it was in the previous quarter. Although bearish sentiment was recently reverting closer to its historical average, it is now approaching an "unusually high" level again. The AAII indicators are making waves this week so I will cover two charts.