The S&P 500's annualized total return over the last five years has been roughly 13.5%, but the average stock currently in the index has seen an annualized total return about 2.6 percentage points less ...

Don't let the stock market's relatively calm façade fool you. There are big moves taking place under the surface. Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, ...

For the past few years, most of the gains seen by major U.S. equity indexes such as the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite were driven by a handful of megacap stocks. But recently, that dynamic has ...

So much has happened this year and yet the market is implying that not much has changed. War warnings, policy reversals, the hunt for AI victims, more than one putative $1 trillion private company ...

History shows a clear pattern with previous range-bound starts for the S&P 500. What's happening beneath the surface of the market now is more important than what happened in the past. 2026 is shaping ...

The S&P 500 could drop to 5,000 (25% correction) due to "cracks" in the market, including the breakdown of the dominant top 20 stocks and exhaustion of the AI trade. Price trends and indicators like ...

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has delivered big returns for investors over the past several years. Concerns are growing about tech concentration, valuations, and a slowing economic growth trajectory.

SPMO outperformed the S&P 500 for three years with virtually identical standard deviation since inception. April 2025 drawdown was 19.12% for SPY and 20.52% for SPMO. During the COVID crash SPMO lost ...

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With the S&P 500 posting record highs, wealth managers are rethinking the wisdom behind buying the index for client portfolios. The index has increased 256% since 2016, driven recently by an ...

The top story of the 2026 stock market is not about how high the next leg of the bull market goes, but which areas of the market no longer carrying it. For the past few years, most of the gains seen ...

NFL wide receiver Rondale Moore died on Feb. 21. The former Purdue Boilermakers standout was 25 years old. Moore's death was confirmed to the Louisville Courier Journal ― part of the USA TODAY Network ...