EBook: Fourth Quarter 2025 Market Insight

Explore key insights from our Investment Strategy & Research (IS&R) team’s fourth-quarter 2025 market outlook. This brief highlights the powerful global forces shaping markets—from AI-driven innovation and evolving monetary policy to shifting trade dynamics and geopolitical uncertainty—and what they mean for investors today.

What's covered in this Ebook:

  • The U.S. Economy Remains Resilient: As we head into the end of 2025, the economy continues to grow. Job gains and spending have cooled somewhat, but overall, the economy has remained resilient.
  • AI Dominance: Artificial intelligence continues to drive market performance, lifting earnings, fueling investment in data centers and shaping expectations for growth and inflation.
  • Mounting Uncertainties: At the same time, several dynamics may pressure markets, including the possibility of a prolonged government shutdown, a softer U.S. dollar, concentration of returns in a few large tech names and heightened international tensions.
  • Portfolio Implications: With powerful global forces reshaping the world order—forces that are likely to remain unresolved for some time—it’s critical to maintain a disciplined investment approach, staying well-diversified to balance potential risks and opportunities that lie ahead.

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