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Stock Mutual Fund Cash Levels Drop To New All Time Record Low

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

As John Hussman correctly highlighted many moons ago, there is just one problem with the whole “cash on the sidelines” statement – it is completely and utterly wrong. Yet while we agree with it in principle, what is also true is that if you don’t have cash, you can’t buy stuff, period. Or in this case, equities. Yes, one can sell existing holdings to raise cash, but in an environment such as ours, in which underperforming the levered beta tsunami (or, unlike in 2010, the modest wakeboarding wave) means immediate termination, and where margin debt barely moved off its all time highs even as the general market (and especially fixed income) crashed in a repeat of late 2008, it seems nobody is willing to sell anything, come hell, high water or pink slip. Which is why, semantics aside, the fact that the mutual fund space just saw its total Liquid Assets drop to a new all time record low of 3.3% (down from 3.4%), or about $150 billion on $4.54 trillion in stock assets, is not good, no matter how one defines cash or sidelines. And with so little cash to bid up stocks even as they plunged (i.e., contrary to the expectation cash did not go up), the very troubling question arises yet again: just where will the purchasing power come from (and no, it’s not retail: retail is long gone).

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