{"id":15470,"date":"2025-05-21T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:03:49","slug":"retail-investors-bought-the-most-stocks-for-a-morning-ever-on-monday-after-moodys-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=15470","title":{"rendered":"Retail investors bought the most stocks for a morning ever on Monday after Moody&#8217;s downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<p><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"xyz-data\">Retail buyers came out in full force in the trading session following Moody&#8217;s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, continuing their dip-buying pattern throughout recent volatility. Individual investors bought a net $4.1 billion worth of stocks on Monday from the open through 12:30 p.m. ET, the largest level ever for the time of day and a more than 11 standard deviation move, according to data from JPMorgan&#8217;s trading desk. They closed the session with $5.4 billion net purchases. The retail cohort was also responsible for 36% of total trading volume Monday, marking another record, JPMorgan said. .SPX 1D mountain S &amp; P 500 Their aggressive buying came after Moody&#8217;s\u00a0Ratings cut the United States&#8217; sovereign\u00a0credit rating down\u00a0one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, the highest possible, citing the growing burden of financing the federal government&#8217;s budget deficit and the rising cost of rolling over existing debt amid high interest rates. The S &amp; P 500 slipped about 1% at its session low but ended up squeezing out a 0.09% gain for its sixth consecutive winning session thanks to the record retail buying. The &#8220;buy the dip&#8221; mentality has been well-anchored on Main Street this year. Retail traders net bought $40 billion in April during the tariff chaos, setting a new record for the largest monthly inflow. Their buying came even as Wall Street pros worried about a recession and a shift away from U.S. assets due to President Donald Trump&#8217;s protectionist policies. Still, the Moody&#8217;s debt downgrade pressured bond prices and sent yields higher Monday with the 30-year U.S. bond yield jumping above 5% and the 10-year yield topping 4.5%. &#8220;US Equities followed a similar path from last week where the daily lows were experienced in the pre-mkt, opening higher, and then seeing another leg higher after the UK\/EU close,&#8221; JPMorgan said in a note Tuesday. &#8220;This may point to retail investors and corporate buybacks as the incremental buyers.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/20\/retail-investors-bought-the-most-stocks-for-a-morning-ever-on-monday-after-moodys-downgrade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail buyers came out in full force in the trading session following Moody&#8217;s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, continuing their dip-buying pattern throughout recent volatility. Individual investors bought a net $4.1 billion worth of stocks on Monday from the open through 12:30 p.m. ET, the largest level ever for the time of day and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[1468,2263,81,4112,5250,6334,80,108],"class_list":{"0":"post-15470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance-news","8":"tag-bought","9":"tag-downgrade","10":"tag-investors","11":"tag-monday","12":"tag-moodys","13":"tag-morning","14":"tag-retail","15":"tag-stocks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}