Markets Show They're Finally Waking Up to Global Wall of Worry

  • The implications of Trump’s Huawei move took time to sink in
  • Tech stocks have lost momentum; economic warnings got louder

Pedestrians pass in front of the New York Stock Exchange on May 24.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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To the big-time buysiders, those investors more likely to check their portfolio by the season than the session, it was just another week. The S&P 500 still shows a big green number for 2019, after all.

Ditto the quants, with their multiyear horizons and programmed strategies. And hedge funds, whose nerves have been on show for a while now.