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U.S. and European stocks are scaling record highs as investors pile into the AI boom, but economists at the European Central Bank warn that history points to a sharp downturn ahead

The stock market has been on an impressive run since the 2022 bear market. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) — which tracks the largest 500 American companies on the stock market — has strung together three consecutive years of double-digit returns and is up 13% as of market close on Aug. 7. 

Since the S&P 500 was introduced in its modern form, US equities have experienced dozens of corrections, crashes, and bear markets. Some declines lasted only a few weeks before markets rebounded, while others erased years of gains and required nearly a decade to fully recover. Yet despite the differences in their causes, severity, and duration,…

Could a stock market correction, or even a crash, be coming soon? The answer is an unequivocal yes — because corrections or crashes happen every few years. They’re to be expected