{"id":1508242,"date":"2024-12-16T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1508242"},"modified":"2024-12-16T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T00:45:00","slug":"the-biggest-owner-of-us-stocks-has-never-been-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-biggest-owner-of-us-stocks-has-never-been-so-long\/1508242\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Owner Of US Stocks Has Never Been So Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The Biggest Owner Of US Stocks Has Never Been So Long<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em>Authored by Simon White, Bloomber macro strategist,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The latest Federal Flow of Funds data for the third quarter was released Thursday and shows that <strong>US households are now as long equities as they ever have been, with data going back to the 1940s.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is another indication of the zeal for US stocks, and points to poor long-term returns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The household sector\u2019s stock ownership is now at 39% of financial assets, exceeding the high reached in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-12-16_08-25-12.jpg?itok=LyuiW_5t\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US households are the largest owners of stocks, owning 44% of the outstanding supply.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just households though, the cross-sector (households, corporates, financials and foreigners) ownership of equities also hit an all-time high compared to financial assets held.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When everybody is already long, it\u2019s harder for prices to keep appreciating indefinitely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 12\/16\/2024 &#8211; 14:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/biggest-owner-us-stocks-has-never-been-so-long\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/biggest-owner-us-stocks-has-never-been-so-long<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biggest Owner Of US Stocks Has Never Been So Long Authored by Simon White, Bloomber macro strategist, The latest Federal Flow of Funds data&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1508243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6kmu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/2024-12-16_08-25-12-SN9QLt.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}