The individual stocks and the market as a whole are leading indicators. Keep that in mind in assessing this. Some of the future problems are priced in already, how much is anyone’s guess. There are actually ways of analyzing this on some level but I am not going into that here.
The stock market has already priced in an economic downturn to some degree, or at the very least a slowing. Remember, smarter people than we are run these big institutions. They have a ton of financial backing to research things.
They way they bullshit John Q public for their own gain is another matter, but do not assume the insiders on Wall Street do not see the slowdown coming.
