Searching for the next buyers of this bull market with inflows surging and the consensus long

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Corporations, money markets and systemic hedge funds could be possible next sources of demand for stocks.

Inflows into U.S. equity funds approached $30 billion in the most recent week, the fifth-highest total ever, says EPFR Global. One measure of investors' equity exposure is at a two-decade high.

Investors can comfort themselves that this potential energy for the market remains, but it is unclear how much longer they can extend the bull market.

We can cite "cash on the sidelines," in the hackneyed phrase. But if it comes off the sidelines to buy stocks, that same amount of cash sits in the hands of the sellers. And share prices depend as much on their owners' reluctance to sell and willingness to let winners ride and leverage build as from new buy orders. Prices move based on the relative urgency of buyers and sellers, not the raw quantity of dollars deployed.

 

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