Navigate stock market volatility and long-term investments by understanding the impact of inflation, bond rates, and Federal ...

Oil prices fell after Trump's comments, while the 10-year US Treasury yield rose, signaling that Trump may have less ...

The S&P 500 and Dow industrials finished February with their best two-month starts to a year since before the pandemic. The Dow is up 3.5% through Thursday's close, while the S&P 500 is up 6.8%.

Most of the time the stock market has earned positive returns Figure 1 in the chart below shows the annual return in the S&P 500 since 1926, including the return from dividends. This chart ...

Below, we discuss five key charts that reveal strong momentum for the S&P 500 as 2024 enters its last quarter. Looking for ...

The S&P 500 gained more than 20% for the second year in a row in 2024, the first time that's happened since the late 1990s. The index has carved out a head and shoulders pattern, a classic chart ...

The biggest US tech stocks have enjoyed an earnings bonanza in the past two years, leading to their significant ...

Palantir is the S&P 500's (^GSPC) top performer this year amid robust demand for its analytics AI software offerings. A shooting star formed on the chart last week, a candlestick pattern that ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. The S&P 500 gained more than 20% for the second year in a row in 2024, the first time ...

S&P 500 companies, at large, saw a sequential dip in stock buybacks in the third quarter to $226.6B from $235.9B in the previous quarter. This figure was still a 22.1% jump over last year ...