The Stock Market Is Repeating a Pattern Not Seen in Over 2 Decades. History Says This Could Come Next.

Key Points Generative AI-related spending is helping to prop up a market with increasingly shaky fundamentals. Will the spiraling crisis in the Middle East finally pop the bubble? 10 stocks we like better than NASDAQ Composite Index › If you'd put $1,000 into the Nasdaq Composite index on March 10, 2000, your investment wouldn't have regained its starting value until April 23, 2015. That's roughly 15 years of negative returns, highlighting the potentially devastating impact of buying stocks at the peak of a bubble. This example is pertinent because the Nasdaq and S&P 500 are once again near all-time highs, driven by generative artificial intelligence (AI).