Record highs in the stock market: What’s the impact on the public? Caleb Silver, Investopedia’s Editor-in-Chief, explores market sentiment and the Investopedia Anxiety Index. His insights reveal that it is a tale of two different worlds. He spoke with Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre and Broke DiPalma on Stocks in Translation.
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Video Transcript

How are you seeing the market?

Are you not entertained?

Stocks and record highs right now, we got meme stocks back in, in uh in play right now.

So the market, the market seems like, you know, it's ok.

But we have this tale of two countries, right?

You have the stock market at all time.

Highs, you have median home prices right at all time.

Highs.

Asset owners shareholders are doing great right now.

The real feel of the economy not so great.

So that's what we're feeling on investopedia.

We have something we call the investopedia anxiety index.

This is our readers search traffic to fear or anxiety based terms and as far as the markets go brilliant.

Thank you.

Uh they're not concerned because the markets at record highs, it's just been churning higher and higher.

A couple, a little bit of a reversal in April, but they're not worried about that.

They're not too worried about the macro environment, although inflation has been the dominant theme and that's their number one concern.

They're more concerned about their own personal finances.

So you have people who are run up too much credit, they haven't been able to keep up with rising inflation, maybe they got a raise, but it's just not keeping up.

And then the things that we have to buy insurance, food rent, the things that you can't get away from, they can't get away from and it's eating into their ability to invest.

So we're seeing a little bit of a pullback just in terms of enthusiasm.

We survey our readers every couple of months and right now, I would say they are cautiously optimistic, but not necessarily promiscuous, not really getting into it.