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At the S&P 500's all-time closing high yesterday, Total U.S. Equity Market Volume (including dark pool) was down -14% and -33% versus its 1-month and year-to-date averages.
In size, we would much rather be long the Long Bond via TLT than SPY with this illiquidity setup in stocks looking very similar to the end of September and November. That of course was just before the abrupt 10% and 5% corrections in early October and December.
What do you do when you have global growth slowing and #deflation? You buy the Long Bond (TLT), and anything liquid equities that looks like a bond. On a related note, Utilities led U.S. Equity gainers (again) yesterday, +1.2% on the day to a monster +29.3% year-to-date.
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