A Federal Reserve Double Whammy Is 2 Months Away -- and It May Mark the Tipping Point for the Stock Market

For much of the last 17 years, the stock market has been virtually unstoppable. With the exception of the five-week COVID-19 crash in February-March 2020 and the nine-month bear market in 2022, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have spent roughly 16 of the last 17 years trekking higher. Investors have enjoyed no shortage of catalysts, including the rise of artificial intelligence, the advent of quantum computing, recor ...