4 events this week will dictate the fate of markets through year-end

This post originally appeared in the First Trade newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily markets newsletter here. As the stock market has gotten more volatile over the last month — currently mired in a four-day skid — the narratives driving those price swings have only crystallized further. It's really a two-horse race of market drivers at this point: (1) how investors are feeling about the red-hot AI trade, and (2) what the Fed plans to do with interest rates. In terms of those tw ...