Barclays strategists said that although corporate profits currently support the stock market, this asset class faces supply concerns caused by artificial intelligence and the risk of fluctuations on the eve of the US midterm elections. The research team led by Emmanuel Kau's benchmark scenario predicts that the stock market will slowly rise, but this probably requires the bond and crude oil markets to stabilize. The team wrote in the research report that demand for stocks continues to be superior to cash and bonds at this stage, and the performance gap between the two widened further during the year.

Barclays strategists said that although corporate profits currently support the stock market, this asset class faces supply concerns caused by artificial intelligence and the risk of fluctuations on the eve of the US midterm elections. The research team led by Emmanuel Kau's benchmark scenario predicts that the stock market will slowly rise, but this probably requires the bond and crude oil markets to stabilize. The team wrote in the research report that demand for stocks continues to be superior to cash and bonds at this stage, and the performance gap between the two widened further during the year.