Investors studying a range of metrics to determine whether the coming months could bring relief or more of the same. The S&P 500 is down around 18% year-to-date, on track for its worst first half of any year since 1970. The U.S. bond market, as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index fund, is down 10.8% for the year to date. The market selloff is “an inevitable needed correction of the post-VID excesses,” he said, describing a stimulus-fueled rally that saw the S.P 500 more than double its March lows. Investors holding on for an eventual turnaround, however, may be in for a stomach-churning ride. . . .
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