Wall Street pushed higher in midday trading, with the S&P 500 on track for its eighth consecutive gain — its longest winning streak since November 2023. The index rose about 1% to 5,560, fully recovering the losses sustained after former President Donald Trump announced trade tariffs on April 2.
The momentum trade just hit a wall and the unwind has been nothing short of brutal. JPMorgan analysts Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, Arun Jain and Bhupinder Singh note that the sharp reversal in momentum has erased two years of gains in just three weeks – one of the fastest unwinds in four decades.
