storm clouds

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When storm clouds are forming, bold investors can use put-option spreads to profit off the expected stock market decline.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

They are of the same era—fanciful and fantastical embodiments of the enterprise, leisure and sense of possibility America was placing on offer, despite the decade of Depression and war’s looming storm clouds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

These fat-pocketed bigwigs must roam the Hollywood Hills peering up at the sky covered in storm clouds, hoping that they’ll catch the fateful electric spark in their glass vials.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

But banks typically increase their quarterly provisions for loan losses if they see storm clouds forming.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

Ivy nodded, but the storm clouds just kept building and building.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake