The stock market won’t be worth celebrating in 2026
This year, Wall Street strategists expect the S&P 500 to gain about 9.6%, but that seems unlikely. Going back to 2015, the S&P 500 has gained about 9% just one, in 2016, when it rose 9.5%. Otherwise, the index had two bad years (it lost 0.7% in 2015 and 6.2% in 2018), one terrible year…