Wall Street pointed higher early Friday as more strong earnings results trickled in along with a closely-watched report from the U.S. government showing that inflation ticked higher. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.

And despite historically high valuations, most Wall Street analysts expect the stock market to continue moving higher in the remaining months of the year. Here's what investors should know. Most Wall Street analysts anticipate strong returns in 2025 Shown below are year-end targets for the S&P 500 in 2025 set by various Wall Street banks and research firms.

The New York Stock Exchange is looking to trade for 22 hours a day — raising thorny questions about how equity markets function

Meta Platforms, Tesla and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.

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Higher futures point to a firm start for U.S. stocks Friday morning, but data on the nation's personal consumption expenditure for

Optimists looking for an encore performance from Wall Street were handsomely rewarded in 2024. Last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite all achieved multiple record-closing highs and ended higher by 13%, 23%, and 29%, respectively.

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September

Chevron stock is down Friday after the integrated energy company missed fourth-quarter profit expectations. Here's what you need to know.

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