Investors are advised not to fight the trend. Right now, the trend for stocks remains bullish. That's kept technology stocks, particularly AI stocks, moving higher. But the stock market isn’t the economy, and there are worrisome signs that the economy is slowing down.
That slowdown isn’t showing up in gross domestic product (GDP), but productivity may be coming at a cost to the labor force. At least, that's what the latest jobs data and consumer sentiment show.
