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The Federal Reserve's decision to maintain interest rates has moved the retail sentiment needle measurably.
The American Association of Individual Investors' weekly survey puts bullish sentiment at 37.0%, up 6.0 percentage points from the prior reading, leaving bulls just beneath the 37.5% long-run historical average.
The bull-bear spread improved to -0.9% from -11.1%. The numbers in the AAII print Bullish sentiment's 6.0-point gain is the most visible shift in the latest read.
Bears pulled back 4.1 percentage points to 38.0%, though that level still sits above the bearish long-term average. Neutral sentiment declined 1.9 percentage points to 25.0%. The spread tells the cleaner story.
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