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Don’t do anything about your 401(k) until Tuesday

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The fund managers’ survey is a powerful magnetic south, or contrarian indicator.

When these fund managers are overinvested in stocks, it is generally a bearish signal.

The S&P 500 index of U.S. stocks currently sells for 20 times the forecast per-share earnings of the next 12 months .

It cannot be a positive sign for the administration, therefore, that bond yields have stopped falling in recent days and started rising again. The rate on the 10-year is up to 4.32% , compared with 4.15% earlier this month . Bonds are like seesaws: If the yield falls, the price rises. So if the administration needs that rate at 4% or below to make Treasury bonds a buy, not a sell. Meanwhile — wait until Tuesday ..

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