Wall Street Bosses Say Stocks Ripe for Correction. Should Investors ‘Welcome’ the Pullback?

U.S. stocks might have found an air pocket this week as investors look to fly directly from last week’s megacap earnings parade directly into Nvidia update later this month and a Federal Reserve rate decision that they’re still hoping will give markets a final jolt into the end of the year. With the government shutdown entering its 35th day, and shaping up to be the longest on record, investors are bereft of the jobs and inflation data they need to parse the Fed’s policy path. At the same time, worries over the fate of President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy, and what might replace it should the Supreme Court reject his authority to use emergency powers to impose them, continue to linger.