Why Investors Are More Pessimistic About Stocks Now Than Recent Years

WSJ Your Money Briefing

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The percentage of individual investors who expect stock prices to fall over the next six months reached the highest level since November 2023, according to the latest survey from the American Association of Individual Investors. Wall Street Journal reporter Hannah Erin Lang joins host Ariana Aspuru to discuss what this uncertainty in the stock market could mean for your investments. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Here's your money briefing for Monday, February 24th. I'm Mariana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.
0:43.0	Trade war threats, stubborn inflation, and dwindling expectations for additional interest rate cuts
0:49.4	have turned some investors bearish in 2025.
0:54.0	It's a reflection of just a lot of uncertainties that are floating around right now.
0:59.0	And investors are still digesting all of that and trying to figure out what will end up having a durable impact on American companies and markets.
1:09.0	We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Hannah Aaron Lang about how investors can
1:13.3	navigate this wait and see period.
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2:10.2	Investors haven't felt this pessimistic about the stock market since 2023. So where does it go from here?
2:16.4	Wall Street Journal reporter Hannah Aaron Lang joins me. Hannah, when we talk about individual investor sentiment, what do the numbers tell us?
2:19.7	The American Association of Individual Investors does this survey each week, where they ask
2:24.5	investors whether they expect stock prices to go up or go down over the next six months,
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