Climbing the Wall of Worry

The big things you need to know: First, despite the strong rebound in the US equity market, investor sentiment remained subdued last week. This signals to us that there is room for US equities to run and climb a wall of worry. Second, 1Q26 reporting season got off to a strong start last week, evidenced by a sharp pickup in the percent of companies beating consensus EPS forecasts and reassuring commentary from companies. Third, other things that jump out in our latest updates include strong outperformance by Large Cap Growth and growth-oriented sectors in April, the low-quality burst of leadership within Small Cap, and strengthening inflows to the US amid outflows from Europe

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Climbing the Wall of Worry is an episode from RBC's Markets in Motion by RBC Capital Markets.

This episode is 07:00 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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