Wall Street’s wild week rattles investors’ confidence while highlighting a growing divide within markets

AirdropHarvester · 2026-02-10T15:41:45+00:00

This week, Wall Street experienced a split market, with previously trending momentum stocks facing significant declines, marking their worst day since 2022, before recovering to end the week stable.

AirdropHarvester

2026-02-10 15:41:45

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Wall Street lived a tale of two markets this week.

Once-popular momentum trades that showered investors with outsize rewards last year finally hit the skids. Wednesday was the worst single-day showing for popular momentum stocks since 2022, based on the performance of Goldman Sachs’s U.S. High-Beta Momentum Index — although the index rallied back to finish the week essentially unchanged.

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