In a stock market obsessed with artificial intelligence, Amazon.com Inc. is losing ground.The company’s shares have been lagging the Nasdaq 100 Index for most of the year, and the gap has only widened in the two weeks since Amazon’s July 31 earnings disappointment.

Even the strongest bull market has an Achilles’ heel, and this one might even have two. Stocks were edging lower to start the week, but the S&P 500 was still up nearly 10% since the start of 2025, just a hair’s breadth below last week’s record close of 6468.

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The Shanghai Composite, an index of Chinese stocks trading in the country's financial capital, tallied its highest closing level since August 2015 on Monday, the latest milestone in what is shaping up to be a strong year for China's equity market.

The S&P 500 trades at an expensive valuation that has historically preceded negative returns over the next one, two, and three years.

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The Nasdaq Composite extended its slide on Tuesday–and even the Dow Jones Industrial Average was struggling after hitting an intraday record this morning. The tech-heavy index was down 1.5%, while the Dow was down 90 points,

The Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (QQQ) mirrors the Nasdaq-100, an index that tracks the largest 100 non-financial companies on the Nasdaq stock exchange. This index is essentially a subset of the larger Nasdaq Composite, so it's fairly tech-heavy.