Stock Market Outlook for the Second Half of 2026: Where Investors Should Focus

My family and I had been looking forward to hiking the Sucha Bela Gorge in Slovakia since Thanksgiving. The problem was that my doctor called me the day before I left telling me I had torn my rotator cuff in a recent fall. My vacation started off with a little bit of craziness, sort of like the markets in July.

The markets began in the second half of 2026 with no shortage of craziness, from the Ira…