market crash
CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 29: Jeff Linforth stands at the Chicago Board of Trade signal offers in the Standard & Poors stock index futures pit near the open of trading September 29, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Wall Street experts see a new era ahead for markets, marked by a more difficult investing environment. 
  • Higher rates have burst the bubble in asset prices, while bank struggles threaten a wider downturn. 
  • The new regime will be a far cry from the nearly ideal conditions investors navigated through the last decade. 

The idyllic market environment that dominated the past decade is over, and investors are at the dawn of a more difficult era, Wall Street experts say.