Goldman Sachs: Hedging funds net sold US stocks for eight consecutive weeks

Golden Ten data, August 5th news, Goldman Sachs bulk broker data shows that the strength of Hedging funds dumping US stocks reached a six-week high, continuing to reduce net long positions of individual stocks, and the scale of increasing ETF short positions hit the highest in a year. Macro products (such as indexes and ETFs) accounted for 40% of the net dumping, and this was entirely driven by short selling. The increase in ETF short positions is the largest since August 2023. Information technology has been the most net sold industry so far. The zone has seen the largest net selling in five weeks and has had net selling in 9 of the past 11 weeks.