US STOCK TRADING HITS $1 TRILLION A DAY U.S. equity markets are seeing record turnover, averaging $1.03 trillion a day in January—a 50% jump from a year ago—with 19 billion shares traded daily. The surge spans retail, institutional, and automated trading, occurring amid calm markets rather than volatility. Factors include high stock prices, sector rotation from tech to energy/materials, ETF growth, and retail platforms like Robinhood. Trading above 15 billion shares daily has persisted for 13 straight months, signaling strong, sustained liquidity and a new norm of heavy market activity.(*Walter Bloomberg)