NEW YORK -- U.S. stock indexes are tiptoeing around their record levels on Tuesday as an incredibly busy week for Wall Street picks up momentum.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slipped from record highs on Tuesday as a series of downbeat earnings weighed on the indexes, while investors looked ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the day.

Michael Kantrowitz, chief investment strategist at Piper Sandler, details why a rally fueled by macro optimism could soon face a reckoning.

Since January 2019, the 4-6-D has materialized 27 times. What’s more, in 62.96% of cases, the following week’s price action results in upside, with a median return of 3.49%. With ZIM stock closing at $16.55 on Monday, we can roughly estimate that the security may pop to around $17.13.

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bankers and traders returned to work on a somber Tuesday morning in Midtown Manhattan, New York's financial epicenter, one day after a shooting that killed several people,

U.S. stocks coasted to a quiet finish to begin a week full of potentially market-moving events. The S&P 500 edged up by less than 0.1% on Monday to set an all-time high for a sixth straight day.

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Retail investors are often late to Wall Street parties, only catching the rally once it's established and "smart money" is looking for the exit. But that doesn't appear to be the case this time around.

Sky-high valuations for tech heavyweights have left investors searching for alternatives. Plus, President Trump's trade policies haven’t affected all companies the same way, creating winners (and losers) for investors to discover.

"We still believe the most likely outcome is slow growth and firm inflation: Not a recession, but a backdrop where the adverse effects of trade and immigration controls on growth outweigh the boost from deregulation and fiscal largesse," Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Zezas wrote.