The S&P 500 went 53 straight trading days without a daily drop of 1% or more before a 1.1% drop on Oct. 14. The index rose over the next year after 40 of the 54 past streaks that hit 50 sessions.
S&P 500 ETFs remain resilient despite rate worries, supported by upbeat earnings, positive estimate revisions, midterm history and strong holiday spending forecasts.
The index may not move much because the stocks with the biggest weightings lag, but there's a bull market starting to bubble elsewhere, says a hedge-fund manager.
Steven Jon Kaplan sees a completely irrational stock market right now, and investors ignoring a perfectly safe way to play that.
The artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure build-out has propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite to record highs. Despite the benchmark S&P 500 romping to an all-time high, 84% of its components are in official correction territory -- down at least 10%.
The S&P 500 is having another strong year. That's important ahead of the midterms for a variety of reasons.
Citi's strategist set a bold year-end price target for the S&P 500, but the math only works if a beaten-down slice of the market stops bleeding while Treasury yields are still climbing against it.
Jim Cramer says investors have spent four years trying to decide when to leave the stock market and when to jump back in. The S&P 500 has risen about 118% since its October 2022 low, surviving aggressive Federal Reserve tightening, the 2023 banking crisis, tariff shocks and geopolitical conflict.
The gap between the benchmark and its average member highlights how much of Wall Street's rally rests on a handful of companies as the US bull market nears a four-year anniversary.
AI-related companies now control a share of the S&P 500 that rivals the most dangerous concentration episode in American financial history, and the last time anything came close, investors lost fortunes even as the underlying technology changed the world.
“Tuesday rings in the month of September.
With the U.S. midterm elections on the horizon, attention is turning to the S&P 500 and how the benchmark index could react to the polls.