(Bloomberg) -- “Most investors have missed the rally” in U.S. stocks, so further gains are likely as they spend some of their cash to buy shares, according to Andrew Garthwaite, a global strategist at Credit Suisse Group.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may reach 1,000 before prices peak, he wrote in a report yesterday. His estimate is 15 percent higher than yesterday’s close of 872.81, which resulted from the S&P 500’s biggest monthly gain since March 2000. The index last closed above 1,000 on Nov. 4.
As the CHART OF THE DAY shows, investors have more money stashed away in money-market mutual funds than in equity funds, according to data compiled by the Investment Company Institute. That hadn’t been the case for 16 years, according to the report, which included a chart comparing the funds’ assets since 1991.
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