A trade war. A real war with bombs dropped in the Middle East. A barrage of insults hurled by the president of the United ...

The index’s first record since February follows a rapid and dramatic recovery from April’s tariff-induced selloff.

The reading, from the University of Michigan, could show that the initial shock of tariff announcements is wearing off.

How else to explain stock-market highs?

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