Money managers are not just bullish about the stock market, they're euphoric about the current and future state of the global economy, data from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows.

What's happening: BAML's monthly survey of fund managers from around the world finds investors are all in on the stock market, with global optimism rising by the most in 20 years and expectations of real economic growth jumping by the most in the history of the survey.

Why it matters: Investors have done a complete 180-degree turn in sentiment, moving from distrustful of the market's 2019 gains to full-fledged cheerleaders.

• This is thanks to an expected pause in the U.S-China trade war and slight improvements in U.S. and global manufacturing, services and housing data.

Details: The survey saw a 43 percentage point increase in the number of investors expecting a stronger global economy in the next year, the biggest month-to-month jump on record.

• There was a 91 percentage point turnaround in the number of investors who expect the 2-year/10-year yield curve to steepen, with the highest percentage of investors predicting steepening in three years.
• Inflation expectations jumped by 29 percentage points.
• More than half of investors surveyed (52%) expect equities to be the top performing asset class in 2020.

Further, fund managers now expect global production numbers to rebound to levels not seen in more than a year and earnings per share readings to be well above their current levels. Plus, a majority say they now want more companies to increase capital expenditures rather than reduce debt or improve their balance sheets.

• Respondents now say they're holding the lowest cash allocation since November 2015, a 20 percentage point decline from last month.
• Allocation to global equities rose 20 percentage points from October to net 21% overweight, the highest level in a year.

Watch out: "Investor sentiment and behavior is reacting to this breakout much differently than recent ones," Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide, says in an email.

• "The CNN Fear & Greed Index registered 'extreme fear' (<25 on a scale from 0-100) in August but is now in 'extreme greed' (91), indicating we may have gone too far too fast."

The last word: BAML's data isn't showing excess greed just yet, analysts say, but they caution the "easy part" of the market rally is over. Now comes the hard part.

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The S&P 500's bull run over the past 128 months has been impressive, but it is also not well understood, analysts at LPL Financial note.

The intrigue: While the stock market's gains have continued for longer than the previous record-long bull market that Americans witnessed through the 1990s, it has produced far fewer returns for stock investors.

Details: This bull market's average returns have not been as strong as during the last long run, and they are historically worse than the average bull market, delivering 15.3% average annualized gains compared to the average bull market annualized gain of 18.9%.

• That's been largely because this bull market has experienced two separate 19% corrections in October 2011 and December 2018.

Reality check: "While the selloffs were swift and deep, the S&P 500 didn’t fall more than 20% on a closing basis (the classic definition of a 'bear market')," LPL analysts note.

• "One more bad day last December, though, and we would be saying this bull market is less than a year old. That’s quite a different look than where we are now."

The positive sentiment in the stock market looks to have also gotten into real estate buyers.

• Mortgage applications and refinances jumped for the week ending Nov. 8, even as mortgage rates rose and increased the total asking price for homes, data from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows.

By the numbers: An index tracking applications rose 9.6% from a week earlier to its highest level in more than a month and MBA's refinancing index increased 13% from the previous week and 188% from the same week one year ago.

What they're saying: “Last week was a solid week for homebuyers," says Joel Kan, MBA's associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, says in a release accompanying the data.

• "Low supply and high home prices remain a key characteristic of this fall’s housing market, which is why the largest growth in activity continues to be in loans with higher loan balances.”

Hedge funds again lagged the returns of U.S. stocks as well as a combined fund of 50% global stocks and 50% global bonds in the third quarter and in October, according to data from eVestment.

Why it matters: Hedge funds aim to deliver consistent returns for investors that outperform during times of market stress, but despite increased uncertainty and geopolitical tensions in Q3, the industry saw negative returns on an overall basis.

• Even equity hedge funds on average underperformed the S&P 500, while financial derivatives funds were the worst performing of all categories last month, showing a 1.33% decline.
• The only hedge funds to outperform the S&P in October were those with large exposure to China, India and Russia.

What it means: With the stock market again in favor, investors are likely to pull even more money out of hedge funds given their lackluster performance during the third quarter.

The big picture: Year to date, not a single major category of hedge fund has outperformed the S&P and the only hedge funds that delivered better returns than the 50% global bonds and equity fund were those dedicated to Chinese and Russian assets.

Axios' Ina Fried writes: Facebook yesterday announced Facebook Pay, an online payment system that will allow users across its services to send payments to one another.

• The new product, separate from its Libra cryptocurrency effort, puts the social network giant in competition with Venmo and others.

Why it matters: Once again, Facebook will be asking users to hand over more sensitive information when it is under fire for how it manages the information and access it already has.

Between the lines: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at F8 last year that the company wasn't going to slow down on developing new products even as it works to restore trust.

• Since then, the company has announced plans for its own cryptocurrency and launched Portal, which puts a camera and microphone inside a user's home.

Details: Facebook said it will roll out Facebook Pay on Facebook and Messenger this week in the U.S. for "fundraisers, in-game purchases, event tickets, person-to-person payments on Messenger" as well as some businesses on Facebook Marketplace.

• The service will later expand to WhatsApp and Instagram, the company said.

Separately, the Bank for International Settlements announced Tuesday that outgoing ECB executive board member Benoît Cœuré will lead a new unit at the BIS focused on financial technology like digital currencies.

• In a speech in September, Cœuré said Facebook’s Libra has been a “wake-up call” for central banks.