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The S&P 500 gained 0.4% on Wednesday, Feb. 5, recovering from morning losses as chip giant Nvidia and other AI names reinvigorated the tech sector.

The S&P 500 added 0.7% on Tuesday, Feb. 4, as investors evaluated developments on U.S. tariffs, labor market data, and the latest earnings news.

In short, if you put $1,000 into an S&P 500 index fund every month and achieved a 9.5% annualized return, you'd end up with about $1.8 million after 30 years.

This writer wonders whether the blue-chip US index is ready for a stumble, with one popular S&P 500 share up a mind-boggling ... (AI), respectively). Might history be rhyming here?

Earlier this month I devoted a column to several of these ... In those years in which the S&P 500's SPX January low was above its prior December low, the market from February through December ...

Since then, the economy has added 7.6 million jobs, or nearly 240,000 jobs per month, BLS data shows ... to January 16, 2025, the S&P 500 had a total return (including dividends) of 63.77% ...

One idea involves a schedule of graduated tariffs increasing by about 2 per cent to 5 per cent a month and would rely ... and companies guessing. The S&P 500 index earlier on Jan 13 dropped ...

The S&P 500 Index is expected to move 1% in either direction on Jan. 15, based on the cost of at-the-money puts and calls, according to Stuart Kaiser, Citigroup Inc.’s head of US equity trading ...

This view of gold runs contrary to that of many portfolio managers and banks, but for the skeptics, Goldman Sachs points to gold's historic performance. Gold beat the S&P 500 by 2% in 2024.

Now, let's see what history tells us about the S&P 500's performance track record. Over the past 40 years, every period of gains that started with an annual increase in the double digits was ...

And when considering dividend-paying stocks, those with a history ... month basis. KMB shares have been a bit sluggish over the past year, gaining 6% but underperforming relative to the S&P 500 ...