The S&P 500 declined by 0.5% on Friday, Jan. 31, as investors digested the White House’s proposed tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico.

The U.S. stock market was mostly up in midday trading Friday, with the S&P 500 trading near its record closing high as its technology sector climbed sharply. The S&P 500 was up 38 points around midday ...

The NASDAQ-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that make up the index.

The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday ... and its shares dropped. Major U.S. equities indexes pushed higher to end the week, with traders set for a day off in observation of Martin Luther King Jr ...

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%.

So, the S&P 500 is able to maintain its status as an accurate reflection of the major companies of the times. Now, let's see what history tells us about the S&P 500's performance track record.

The benchmark S&P 500 is trading at valuations well above its historical long-term average and a disappointing earnings season could put further gains for equities in jeopardy. Kansas City Fed ...

The gap between the S&P 500's earnings yield and the 10-year Treasury yield has slipped into negative territory and is at its widest point since 2002. Put differently, the relative attractiveness ...

The S&P 500 is the most diversified of the major U.S. stock market indexes. It features 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, and it has very strict entry criteria. To qualify ...

Fundamentally, the S&P 500 is feeling the pressure from rising interest rates, and the Gen AI hype. The first major test of 2025 ... at 100dma (red line on the chart below). This is the key ...

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S&P 500 index funds like VFIAX and SWPPX can be an easy and inexpensive way to round out most investment portfolios. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...