The biggest losers in the S&P 500 all faced disappointing sales and earnings. But large declines and extreme volatility can sometimes represent buying opportunities. Returning 25% in 2024, the S&P 500 delivered a record-breaking year for stock market investors.

The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into the long weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025.

Both of these funds have made for good, market-beating investments over the past 10 years. But by focusing on the Nasdaq-100, which includes the top non-financial stocks on the exchange, the Invesco fund has been the far better investment during that stretch.

US stocks jumped on Wednesday after consumer price data showed inflation continues to slow. Strong bank earnings also helped lift sentiment.

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Seven of the S&P 500's 11 sectors are expected to achieve cumulative year-over-year growth in normalized earnings per share among their constituent companies in fourth quarter 2024 earnings

The S&P 500 index’s biggest sector, information technology, was rising sharply Friday afternoon, but the gains were not quite large enough to lift it into positive territory so far in 2025. The tech sector was up 1.

Shares of equipment rental company United Rentals (NYSE:URI) jumped 5.3% in the pre-market session after the company announced it would acquire H&E Equipment Services (HEES) for $92 per share in cash, valuing the deal at approximately $4.8 billion, including $1.4 billion in net debt.

Bank stocks broadly rallied Wednesday as investors cheered the kickoff of earnings season and expressed a sigh of relief over fresh data showing a cooling in core inflation.

The S&P 500 has given up almost all of its post-election gains, with renewed inflation fears crimping Wall Street optimism about President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts and deregulation. Strong economic data have dashed hopes for a slew of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve,

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq rose Friday on the last trading day of Joe Biden's presidency as the stock market braces for change under Donald Trump.