Here is the latest market news from Wholesale Direct Metals. If bonds are where they are because of global central-bank policies and overseas challenges and not because of a U.S. recession, then stocks should do better. While the S&P 500 is less than 2% from a record high, fewer than half the stocks in the index are even within 10% of their own 52-week high. Wholesale Direct Metals complaints about the financial markets are confirmed in this latest data.