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Wall Street braces for its first big week of second-quarter results as a derailed stock market rally slouches into summer.

U.S. and European stocks fell, extending losses from the first weekly decline for global equities in more than a month, as the World Bank said the recession will be deeper than previously forecast. Treasuries rose, while a drop in commodities sent oil below $68 a barrel.

Equities and commodities retreated after the World Bank forecast today the global economy will contract 2.9 percent this year. That compares with a prior estimate of a 1.7 percent decline. Growth is expected to return next year with a 2 percent expansion, lower than the 2.3 percent prediction about three months ago.

Executives at U.S. companies are taking advantage of the biggest stock-market rally in 71 years to sell their shares at the fastest pace since credit markets started to seize up two years ago. This is a clue that the stock market is already expensive. Sales by CEOs, directors and senior officers have accelerated to the highest level since June 2007, two months before credit markets froze, as the S&P 500 rebounded from its 12-year low in March. The increase is making investors more skittish because executives presumably have the best information about their companies’ prospects.

George Soros to Marc Faber predicted the rebound in equities will falter as the market braces for a seventh straight quarter of declining earnings. “It’s a bear-market rally because we have not yet turned the economy around,” Mr Soros said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “This is not a financial crisis like all the other financial crises that we have experienced in our lifetime.” Alcoa Inc. reported a $497 million net loss in the first quarter, the second straight for the largest U.S. aluminum producer, as the global recession reduced demand for the metal used in automobiles and appliances.