A Bad Month for Stocks Ends With Few Signs the Drama Is Over
- Hedge funds were ‘modest’ sellers during Tuesday’s 2% selloff
- Index failed for a second day to break through the 4,385 level
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The end of the September in the stock market was a time of volatility, accelerated hedging and economic unease. It did not, however, spur an extreme reordering in trader sentiment, and to some of Wall Street’s old guard that’s worrisome.
While the S&P 500 posted its worst monthly performance since March 2020, there was no sign of the kind of cathartic surrender that contrarians look for in trying to call bottoms. Amid another early-week selloff, hedge funds tracked by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were only “modest” sellers. On Tuesday, when the benchmark suffered its biggest drop in four months, outflows from equity exchange-traded funds trickled to only a fraction of what had been seen the week before.