Wall Street operates with a one year time horizon or less (the next bonus). Since those bonuses can be 100’s of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or for the heads of companies, hundreds of millions, one bonus is life changing and they’ve made their fortune. So there is no rational reason to worry about a crash that won’t happen this year.
that is a predictable manipulation.
for example those who watched GM, we could easily see GM suits were not standing up to the UAW. AND you could easily see the UAW did not give a rats posterior about the companies future as long as they got their deal today.
You can see how many insiders own a company.
You can see how mutual funds buy the quality stock in dec and sell in january to play their reports.
Just because blackrock is american express does not mean they are effective, if anything they are just trading on name.
That said which persons do you speak of? corporate? traders?
that is changing because of self directed trading is now automated.