Thursday 20 April 2017

Markets mixed as investors move out of expensive US stocks

Markets were mixed on Wednesday.

The S&P 500 fell 0.2 percent but the STOXX Europe 600 rose 0.2 percent.

Earlier in Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.9 percent but the Nikkei 225 rose 0.1 percent.

US stocks were dragged down by oil. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 3.8 percent on Wednesday while Brent fell 3.6 percent.

US stocks also fell amid the reallocation of funds away from them towards other markets, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's latest global fund manager survey.

“A net 83% of investors think [the] U.S. is the most overvalued region, the highest response on record,” said BAML strategists Michael Hartnett and Jared Woodard in a note.

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