In recent years, investors have had to assess whether specific events would stall the market’s advance: the Russia-Ukraine war, the Silicon Valley Bank failure, tariffs, and the Iran war.
And yet, here we are again, with US stock markets ending April 2026 with a 10.49% rise in the S&P 500 Index.
A mistake many investors may have made was allowing those risks to become the primary lens through which they viewed markets.
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By Brian Levitt, Chief Global Market Strategist and Head of Strategy & Insights
In 1970, Edwin Starr released the famous anti-war anthem “War (What Is It Good For?),” best known for the line “Absolutely nothing.” I’ll leave the foreign policy debates
