S&P 500 Investors Cope With Scary News

Summary The trading week ending Friday, 18 September 2026, was a scary one for the U.S. stock market's bulls and bears. By the end of the week, the S&P 500 recovered enough to close at 7,650.50, less than 0.1% below where it closed the preceding week. After the Fed's quarter-point rate hike on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, the CME Group's FedWatch Tool anticipates three more quarter-point rate hikes in the weeks ahead. mustafaU/iStock via Getty Images The trading week ending Friday, 18 September 2026, was a scary one for the U.S. stock market's bulls and bears. The week began with CEO Dario Amodei of Anthropic ( ANTHRO ), the leading AI This article was written by Ironman at Political Calculations 3.49K Followers Follow Ironman is the alias of the blogger at Political Calculations, a site that develops, applies and presents both established and cutting edge theory to the topics of investing, business and economics. We should acknowledge that Ironman is either formerly or currently, and quite possibly, simultaneously employed as some kind of engineer, researcher, analyst, rocket scientist, editor and perhaps as a teacher of some kind or another. The scary thing is that's not even close to being a full list of Ironman's professions and we should potentially acknowledge that Ironman may or may not be one person. We'll leave it to our readers to sort out which Ironman might behind any of the posts that do appear here or comments that appear elsewhere on the web!