many on wall street entered 2023 with a dour forecast for the us stock market and economy a recession seemed all but certain months later investors are increasingly embracing the idea that the domestic economy will avert a downturn this morning’s inflation data—which came in cooler than expected—is leading some to double down on that view stock futures are ripping higher while yields on 10year treasurys are dropping the activity in early trading wednesday builds on a monthslong trend in which investors and analysts have shed their gloomy outlooks and piled into bets that the us economy and stocks will keep flourishing some analysts have upped their forecasts for stocks this year rejiggering dour predictions held just months ago meanwhile many investors have entered the stock market taking bullish positions through the futures market and bringing positioning up from lows earlier in the year there’s been a frenzy in the options market lately with traders betting on even bigger stock gains and the rally has broadened with economicallysensitive corners of the stock market shining