Monthly Market Watch

Monthly Update – November 2026

The average stock staged a rare comeback as the Fed paused

Investors continued to question the pace of AI spending in October. The chart to the right shows the increasing expense of insurance on bonds issued by Coreweave, an AI infrastructure company, relative to the muted shifts in broad high yield market spreads. This caused a reversal of September’s narrow market performance; the Equal-Weight S&P 500led the cap-weighted index by over 5 percentage points after trailing it by 4.5 points in September, the largest monthly swing in favor of the average stock since at least 1990. That shift was also reflected in Mag7 stock moves.

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Provident Oak Financial Monthly Market Watch

Monthly Update – November 2026

The average stock staged a rare comeback as the Fed paused

What This Means For You

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