Breakthrough Or Breakdown? Stocks Are At A Key Junction

President & Co-Founder at Peak Prosperity • May 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM EDT

If the S&P can hold above the 200 daily moving average over the coming week, then the correction will be officially over and stocks should have an open field to run back up to the previous highs (and possibly higher).

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The market is at a critical point, observes portfolio manager Lance Roberts.

If not, then the odds that the recent run have been a bear market rally -- one that will fizzle out and send stocks lower again -- become much more likely.

Lance and I discuss the probabilities, as well as bonds, AI, this week's promising data releases, as well as Lance's firm's latest trades in today's Weekly Recap.

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