The American economy is increasingly becoming the envy of the world. The latest evidence: According to the latest monthly survey of fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, released yesterday, global investors are favoring U.S. stocks more and more strongly.
There is currently a net allocation of 21 percent overweight to the United States equity market, the highest such level since January 2015, and the U.S. was named as the most favored equity region globally for a second straight month. The allocation to global equities fell 11 percentage points to a net overweight of 22 percent, slightly below the long-term average.
In large part, the optimism about U.S. stocks is related to the outlook for corporate profits. According to the survey, a net 69 percent of those polled said that U.S. is the most favorable region when it comes to earnings expectations, a record level in the 17-year history of the survey. Currently, the divergence between U.S. and emerging-market earnings expectations is at the widest it's been since January 2014.
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