May 19, 2026 Market Moment
Market Moment
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5/19/2026
- Nearly 70% of teenagers say they want to learn about investing, and 73% of parents view financial literacy as important, yet only 14% of teens say they know a lot about investing. 1
- Tech sector layoffs jumped to 66,000 in the latest monthly report, the highest level outside of COVID since 2001 and 2002, highlighting continued changes across the industry. 1
- Since Jerome Powell became Fed Chair, $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 has grown to over $32,000. Over the same period, bonds lagged far behind, growing to just $11,600. *2
- Despite ongoing comparisons to the dot-com bubble, today’s Nasdaq-100 appears far less speculative than in 1999, with only 18% of index market cap trading above 60x earnings versus more than 76% during the tech bubble peak. *3
- MFS – “US Beyond the News”
- Barron’s – “Grading Powell’s Fed: Good for Stocks, Bad for Affordability”
- A Wealth of Common Sense – “Is This a Bubble?”
*Past performance is not indicative of future performance
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