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Mar 2024
28m 36s

Let the Good Times Roll

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Worries? What worries? As the market hits new all-time highs, investors are bullish—“comfortably bullish,” according to research by Bloomberg Intelligence. They’re also bullish on ETFs, according to BI’s first-ever ETF survey. But what if anything could derail this state of optimism? And how is the current enthusiasm different from the meme-stock euphoria and previous all-time highs of 2021?

On this episode of Trillions, Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber speak with Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Athanasios Psarofagis about his new greed/fear index that utilizes several ETF metrics. They also comb through the survey’s findings, which shows a growing interest in ETFs and active management.

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