Charts Spooking Wall Street: Rate Bets, Debt Loads, Tardy Chips
- S&P 500 is up 22%, but don’t open that door to the basement
- Lurking: Inflation’s grip, ‘hot money,’ the meme stock undead
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Halloween -- a time when terrifying things pop out from around every corner but none do you harm. That’s also a good way to describe markets at the end of 2021.
It hasn’t escaped Wall Street that 2021 has been mostly treats and no tricks, with the S&P 500 up 22% so far. But investors see plenty of dangers ahead, including corporate debt levels, lofty valuations and inflation’s persistent grip.