Evening Briefing Americas

November Ends With Bad News for Market Bears

Gat caught up.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Trading is over for the month of November and the biggest losers appear to be those bearish folk who bet big on a widely anticipated tech-bubble blowout. It didn’t happen (some don’t think there’s a bubble at all), and as markets ended a truncated trading day higher, it became clear just how wrong they were.

It wasn’t just stocks that rose. After a bumpy stretch marked by fears of bloated valuations, wild speculation and artificial intelligence overpromising, bonds, commodities and even Bitcoin advanced this week in one of the strongest cross-asset rallies of the year.