Retail investors don’t drive stock market trends. It’s the Fed, institutions, and companies themselves.
Well known the Fed is pumping liquidity into the market for last few months through the Repo market. Plus cutting the Fed rate twice last year since the recession.
Companies are engaging in stock buybacks. When there’s fewer shares in the market the share price goes up.
Does the money I put in Vanguards 20XX retirement funds in my 401k count as retail? Because I assume across all the different flavors/providers of that, it adds up to quite a lot
Well known the Fed is pumping liquidity into the market for last few months through the Repo market. Plus cutting the Fed rate twice last year since the recession.
Companies are engaging in stock buybacks. When there’s fewer shares in the market the share price goes up.