{"id":13337,"date":"2026-03-10T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:31:15","slug":"hsbc-moves-to-max-overweight-stocks-saying-peak-fear-about-iran-oil-spike-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13337\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC moves to &#8216;max&#8217; overweight stocks, saying peak fear about Iran oil spike has passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for investors to take their stock exposure up to the max now that the worst fears around the Iran oil spike are behind, according to HSBC. &#8220;Yesterday&#8217;s price action is indicative of &#8216;peak fear&#8217; to us with some of our positioning indicators flashing pandemic-type signs,&#8221; Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC, wrote in his upgrade of equities. &#8220;We are now max [overweight] equities and fade the moves from the last few days.&#8221; Stocks rose Tuesday, building on the prior session \u2014 when the major averages staged a massive reversal on President Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks that &#8220;the war is very complete, pretty much.&#8221; Equities also got a boost as U.S. oil dropped 14% to $80 per barrel. Earlier in the week, it neared $120. Of course, investors remain skeptical that the selling is over. Not only is the S &amp; P 500 is just 2.5% away from its record, volatility remains elevated. The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) \u2014 also known as Wall Street&#8217;s fear gauge \u2014 was last above 20, after topping 30 on Monday. .SPX 5D mountain SPX 5-day chart However, HSBC&#8217;s Kettner is confident that the recent bout of panic selling since the start of the U.S.-Iran war will eventually go the same way as the market did during the Covid-19 pandemic, or after last year&#8217;s April tariff announcement. In both instances, stocks shrugged off any worries and marched to all-time highs. &#8220;For us to turn bearish on risk assets now, we&#8217;d have to expect things to get even worse from here, not just stay the same,&#8221; Kettner wrote. &#8220;The next few days and weeks might well bring renewed ups and downs. But the most important thing to us is that it&#8217;s less bad than what we saw in Monday morning trading.&#8221; The strategist expressed a preference for Asia and Europe over the U.S., and said that he&#8217;s looking for asset classes that have overshot to the downside even as fundamentals remain in place. He&#8217;s overweight Japan equities. &#8220;Simple playbook,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Buy the stuff that sold off the most since the Middle East conflict started.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for investors to take their stock exposure up to the max now that the worst fears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,7203,3437,328,135,2574,6441,108,1063,34,7204,7205,3452,2070,1758,113,110,207,4208,570,51,109,562,2361],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-lco26q","tag-vx26h","tag-breaking-news-investing","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-cboe-volatility-index","tag-hsbc-holdings-plc","tag-invesco-db-oil-fund","tag-invesco-qqq-trust","tag-iran","tag-ishares-msci-acwi-etf","tag-ishares-msci-acwi-ex-u-s-etf","tag-ishares-msci-eafe-etf","tag-ishares-msci-emerging-markets-asia-etf","tag-ishares-msci-emerging-markets-etf","tag-ishares-msci-japan-etf","tag-lp","tag-markets","tag-regwall-pro","tag-stock-markets","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-oil-fund","tag-vanguard-ftse-europe-index-fund-etf-shares","tag-wall-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}