Retail investors are buying the current dip — for single stocks, at least. But there's good reason why institutions are being more reined in with many of the issues facing the market unresolved.
After sampling an economic cocktail of inflation and slowing growth stirred up first by tariff uncertainty and now by actual tariffs, hints of another unsavory concept are wafting through: stagflation.
President Trump has redefined the presidential powers in his second term, with little pushback from Congress or the judiciary. But as the economic mood sours, markets may present themselves as a tempering influence.