MarketWatch published an article this past weekend that’s sure to have stressed out anyone who read it. The article, "Here are 7 charts guaranteed to stress you out about the stock market," threw cold water on the idea that the market’s momentum would carry into 2026.
It pointed out that the Nasdaq Composite fell last week, the fifth consecutive week doing so, and the longest streak since 2022. I went back eight weeks -- Dec. 19 through Feb. 13 -- and found that the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) fell in five of those weeks, gaining just 0.17%.
