A seldom-observed event on Wall Street portends trouble for stocks.
This year has served as a good reminder of what a superior wealth creator the stock market can be for patient investors. Despite a tariff-related swoon in equities in late March and early April , Wall Street's health barometer, the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -2.71% ) , along with the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI -1.90% ) and innovation-driven Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -3.56% ) , have all pushed to numerous record-closing highs.
There's plenty for investors to be excited about, including the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the emergence of quantum computing, the prospect of future interest rate cuts, and some sort of coming resolution as to whether or not President Donald Trump's tarif