Why investors care about market breadth

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Jay Woods, chief global strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, recently joined Stocks In Translation to delve into stock weighting and explore how market breadth can serve as a key indicator of overall market health.

He explains, “About 75% of all stocks in the S&P 500 (^GSPC) are above their 200-day moving average. What does that mean to me, that means it's a sign of health. They're trending higher, not going through the roof. There's no euphoria just yet. Yet the S&P 500 is up 20% without that euphoric rally. It's just slow, steady rotating... this, to me, is the most positive thing we've seen in the market in some time.”

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This posytwas written by Neil Mulchany.

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