US stocks subdued at open, but S&P 500 inches up to a record high for third straight day. As tariff worries ease for now, ...

Companies are posting robust results so far this earnings season, but the bar is high for stock gains to continue.

World shares showed mixed results as China introduced measures to boost its stock markets. European indices saw slight gains, ...

(Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg News) Damian Williams, who oversaw dozens of high-profile white-collar investigations as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, is heading to Wall Street powerhouse law firm Paul Weiss.

The index implements a couple of weighting constraints: The maximum position size is the lower of 5% of the portfolio or 20 times a stock’s weighting in the S&P 500, and no sector can account ...

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The S&P 500 has been red-hot during the past two years. In both 2023 and 2024, the index rose by about 24%. That's well above its long-term average of about 10% per year. Many stocks are trading ...

The S&P 500 is a collection of the 500 biggest public companies in the United States and investors have used this index as a foundational portfolio piece for decades. And thanks to index mutual ...

Your specific choice of benchmark may depend on your investing style, but the S&P 500 is used the most for general market analysis. While it excludes smaller companies, the S&P 500 is often ...