US Continues To Dominate World Stock Exchanges: Can This Last Forever? – Investing.com

US Continues To Dominate World Stock Exchanges: Can This Last Forever? – Investing.com

Since the COVID-19 lows, the global markets have shifted how capital is deployed into various global stock market exchanges. Not only has the capitalization of global market exchanges changed, but the attitudes of traders/investors have changed as well.

As the reflation/recovery trade setup and as global central banks continued to make efforts to support the post-COVID-19 recovery efforts, it appears that the focus of capital was initially fairly evenly disbursed across multiple global exchanges. Traders and investors seemed to believe opportunity existed in nearly all global market indexes and exchanges. Yet, it appears something changed as the world neared the September/October 2020 time frame. Suddenly, capital started shifting away from growth expectations and into hedging and risk-off assets. Then, in November/December 2020, global traders and investors shifted focus again – targeting U.S. equities, technology, healthcare and other sectors. The new focus drove an incredible rally phase that has carried into 2021.

In this article, we're going to explore this shift in how traders/investors perceive opportunities, and why the past 7+ months may have setup a global shift away from continued rally expectations as we move into the second half of 2021.