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 top 20 S&P 500 companies accounted for 53.2% of Q3 2024 buybacks, a marginal rise from Q2 2024’s 52.3% and above the historical average of 47.6% and the pre-COVID historical average of 44.5%.

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

DeepSeek's rise could challenge the sustainability of Big Tech earnings growth, a key pillar of the bull market rally.

A month has passed since our previous look at the expected future quarterly dividends of the S&P 500 in 2025. Since that date in mid-December 2024, investors' expectations of how many rate cuts there ...

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 ...

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 ...