Data going back to 1950 show that the first five trading days of the year on the S&P 500 can sometimes be indicative of the index's performance for the full year, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Is the US stock market too high? It’s extremely rare for the S&P 500 to return 20 per cent or more for two years in a row. It happened in the past two years, with the S&P 500 up 24.2 per cent in 2023 ...
The U.S. stock market remained the envy of the world in 2024, extending its outperformance against international peers and claiming an even bigger slice of the multitrillion-dollar global equity ...