The stock market has had among its most extraordinary runs in history. So far in 2024, it is up 28%.
Your best stock-market advice for 2025? Pay no attention to stock-market predictions, which are frequently — and comically — wrong.
Health care and discretionary stocks lead gains, boosting S&P 500. Market sentiment mixed as analysts flag slowing momentum in key sectors.
Year-ahead inflation expectations jumped from 2.6% in November to 2.9% in December.
Contrarian indicators are making Ed Yardeni wary of a short-term pullback for stocks
U.S. stocks could open in the red on Friday as investors exercise caution and take a break after pushing the Dow past 45,000 for the first time. Futures of all three major indices were marginally down on Friday, pointing to cautious sentiment on Wall Street.
Near the end of the trading day, levels for the SPX dipped into Kevin Green's projected support. Range for volume dealer exposure consolidation.
The Q3 2024 reporting season was, by one measure, the best in three years. Optimism abounds across Wall Street research desks as year-end 2025 S&P 500® forecasts make their rounds. Investors should heed macro and company-specific risks looming as the year draws to a close.
The S&P 500 earnings growth rate will likely come in just below the 6% mark for the third quarter.1 That's rather solid considering that analysts were expecting the Q3 EPS rate of increase to be under 5% when the reporting season began.
December is a particularly interesting month for stock market seasonality.
Difficult-to-short stocks often trade at artificially inflated, unsustainable prices.
It would seem that optimists currently see no reason to abandon their bullishness, with the benchmark S&P 500 index again inking another record close. What's more, the available data appears to justify an acquisitive posture.