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Powell's Stock and Bond Record - Money Weekly Newsletter from alooola®

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Powell's Stock and Bond Record

May 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






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Sources:

  1. MFS – “US Beyond the News” 

  2. Barron’s – “Grading Powell’s Fed: Good for Stocks, Bad for Affordability” 

  3. A Wealth of Common Sense – “Is This a Bubble?”

*Past performance is not indicative of future performance






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