2026 is not a bad year per se. There are lot of things that happen that people cannot predict.
If you zoom out on capital markets this is what some people would describe as a "correction"

IMO the stock market has been running hot based on the idea that AI is going to help increase profits. I think AI will do this for corporations over the long term but how AI does that is anyone's guess. AI has not delivered on profits for corporations in the way people were hoping it would over the short term and that has produced negative results in terms of price.
