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High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks

The past few months have seen a significant number of red flags that we have seen with market crashes in the past. Yet nobody knows for sure when the next stock market crash will be.

This year has been a challenging one for Wall Street, but that hasn’t seemed to slow the market down.

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The S&P 500 has been advancing through a bull market for more than three years, with artificial intelligence (AI) stocks leading the way. Investors got excited about the game-changing nature of this technology and piled into potential winners early to maximize gains. And this proved to be a winning bet in many cases, considering the…

From a purely statistical standpoint, Wall Street has enjoyed having Donald Trump in the White House. Although Wall Street’s broad-market indexes rise under most presidents, the average annual returns of the time-tested Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC), and tech-fueled Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) are considerably higher under President Trump than under almost…

Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm

Investors should enjoy the final months of 2026 while they can as the AI-led stock market boom is due to go bust soon, according to analysts.

For more than a century, the stock market has been a wealth-building machine. While Wall Street’s major stock indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC), commonly advance under most presidents, the annualized returns of these indexes have been especially pronounced under President Donald Trump.

The stock market is in a tricky place right now, and investors would be wise to start preparing for volatility.