The biggest losers in the S&P 500 all faced disappointing sales and earnings. But large declines and extreme volatility can sometimes represent buying opportunities. Returning 25% in 2024, the S&P 500 delivered a record-breaking year for stock market investors.
The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into the long weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025.
The bull market has pushed the S&P 500 up 22% over the past year, but historically, the popular barometer has averaged about 10% returns annually. One strategy to beat the index is to invest in companies that are growing revenue or earnings at higher rates.
The S&P 500 slid 0.2% on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, losing momentum after posting solid gains driven by earnings and inflation optimism in the previous session.
Nvidia stock is likely to be a top performer again in 2025 as the company ramps up shipments of its new Blackwell graphics processing units ( GPU s) for data centers. They are potentially the most powerful chips in the world for developing AI models, and demand for them far exceeds supply.
SPMO has shown resilience during the recent downturn, thanks to its high exposure to financial stocks. Click here to find out why SPMO ETF is a Hold.
Seven of the S&P 500's 11 sectors are expected to achieve cumulative year-over-year growth in normalized earnings per share among their constituent companies in fourth quarter 2024 earnings
The S&P 500 index’s biggest sector, information technology, was rising sharply Friday afternoon, but the gains were not quite large enough to lift it into positive territory so far in 2025. The tech sector was up 1.
A gauge of the U.S. equities market that equally weights stocks in the S&P 500 index was up again Friday, as the market continued its broad rally this week. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF was gaining 0.
The S&P 500 has given up almost all of its post-election gains, with renewed inflation fears crimping Wall Street optimism about President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts and deregulation. Strong economic data have dashed hopes for a slew of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve,
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