Persistent inflation concerns, driven by high fuel prices, are prompting investors to sell bonds. That drives up interest rates for consumers.

The stock market rally ran out of steam in the third quarter as AI stocks stumbled. A bond market selloff gained momentum, with Treasury yields rising to multi-decade highs. Inflation remained above target as the Fed hiked interest rates for the first time in three years. After a mid-August bounce, stocks largely went sideways in the third quarter, as upward momentum from the artificial intelligence trade waned and rising interest rates weighed on investor sentiment. For more than three years, the AI boom has been driving the overall stock market higher. But those stocks slowed to a crawl as a growing chorus of AI executives and researchers sounded the alarm on safety concerns for the rapidly advancing technology. Chip and memory stocks, which had been the stock market’s big winners in the first half of 2026, were among the hardest hit in the quarter. In the bond market, anxiety over rising fiscal deficits, inflation, and the Iran war’s ongoing impact on oil prices sent yields soaring to multi-decade highs. Bond prices move inversely with yields, and the major Morningstar bond indexes all finished the quarter in the red. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate hike in three...

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