COMMENTARY: If a bruising third quarter can’t halt Wall Street, what can? ↧ ↧ COMMENTARY: If a bruising third quarter can’t halt Wall Street, w... Wednesday closed the books on an extraordinary quarter. A 40% rebound in Brent crude oil, record-high diesel prices, bond yields at 20-year highs and AI's threat to wipe out humanity gave investors no shortage of reasons to retrench. Yet faced with that formidable wall of worry, US and world stocks still scaled fresh record highs.