4 reasons investors should buckle up for a stretch of big stock-market swings

Orientul Mijlociu

It's been a wild week of a trading for US stocks, but market pros say investors should get used to it. Wall Street is seeing volatility resurface, with stocks rocked by a re-escalation in the Iran war and squashed hopes of any interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve in 2026. The equity market has been surprisingly resilient in the first half of the year, but it's been far from a straight line up. The S&P 500 has recovered from its Iran-war lows at the end of March and then some, climbing to