Closing Bell: Positioning at All-Time Highs 9/18/25
Closing Bell
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Closing Bell. I'm Sarah Eisen in today for Scott Wapner, live from Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 0:07.0 | This make-or-break hour starts with new record highs for the markets. Look at the Dow. It's up 160 points, S&B 500, up 6 tenths of 1%. And the NASDAQ is the leader, Intel, Nvidia, front and center there. |
| 0:21.1 | The NASDAQ popping more than 1%. |
| 0:23.0 | The Russell 2000, small caps on pace for first record closed for them since November 2021. |
| 0:30.0 | So playing catch-up. |
| 0:31.0 | It all takes us to our talk of the tape. |
| 0:32.9 | How do you want to be positioned with stocks here at all-time highs? |
| 0:35.5 | Joining me now is Goldman Sachs's Mina Flynn. Mina, it's great to have you on the show from the private wealth department. |
| 0:42.9 | What are you telling your clients at this point now that we have seen such a strong melt-up |
| 0:46.4 | in stocks? Absolutely. We're encouraging our clients to continue to stay invested and with |
| 0:52.2 | incremental capital to really look to put that to work over a six to |
| 0:55.6 | 18 month time period. And we are expecting drawdown. So whenever you've got a market that's |
| 1:01.0 | at the 10th decile, such as what we are now, it is likely that you're going to get a drawdown. |
| 1:06.3 | In fact, there's an 80% probability of a 10% drawdown. That being said, valuations aren't the best |
| 1:14.0 | predictor of what forward market performance is going to be. So we've been in that 10th |
| 1:18.8 | decile since December of 2016. And since that time, the market's actually returned 200%. So we're |
| 1:26.2 | really focused on earnings. What about the sentiment |
| 1:29.2 | from your clients? I know you represent a lot of family offices and all different types of |
| 1:34.0 | clients. What are you hearing? Client sentiment, I would say, is relatively mixed. And so I would say |
| 1:40.6 | that if you look at our wealth management clients, they are neutral to risk on. |
| 1:47.7 | And so, as you mentioned, work with family office clients. |
| 1:50.7 | We just did an Insights report that looked at a cohort of these clients. |
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