In discussing yesterday’s market action, overnight Rabobank’s Head of Macro Strategy Elwin de Groot, writes that following the vaccine-inspired rally, “the market seems to have reached a delicate balance now where on the one hand, many investors are willing to long beyond the temporary resurgence of the virus as there is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’, whilst others remain concerned that the upcoming months could still prove rather challenging. This balance was well-illustrated by the performance in the S&P 500 yesterday, where the market opened lower, then regained almost fully the opening losses but then slipped again towards the end of the trading session. Yes, with the S&P only a whisker from its all-time high it is obviously ‘risk-on’, but somehow if feels different.”

This point was on full display this morning when in the third consecutive good vaccine news released since Pfizer’s covid news last Monday, in which the company followed up with an increased effectiveness estimate (from 90% to 95%) which should make the company’s application for emergency US authorization be accepted smoothly, the stock response was lukewarm at best, with futures now having faded the entire post-update spike higher…CLICK for complete article