^GSPC - S&P 500
| Previous Close | 2,727.76 |
| Open | 2,723.60 |
| Volume | 1,683,086,480 |
| Day's Range | 2,714.99 - 2,727.36 |
| 52 Week Range | 2,403.59 - 2,872.87 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,460,667,968 |
Yahoo Finance Video•16 hours ago"Market recap for Friday, May 25th"
Stocks dropping and oil getting slammed ahead of the holiday weekend. This is The Final Round.
- MarketWatch•30 minutes ago
Here’s why stock investors should hope that corporate earnings growth shrinks
Many investors find it surprising that, in the wake of the fastest growth rate in corporate profits in many years, the U.S. stock market is struggling. Over the past nine decades, the stock market on average has hardly produced any gain in calendar quarters in which year-over-year earnings growth is as strong as it is currently. GAAP earnings per share for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) are projected to be 36.7% higher than the comparable quarter of a year ago, according to Standard & Poor’s. That compares to an average of just 5.9% average annual growth since the late 1980s.
- FX Empire•7 hours ago
S&P 500 shows slight bullish pressure during the week
The S&P 500 has been reasonably quiet during the week, as we have traded in a tight range. However, we have recently rallied over the last couple of weeks, so it looks very likely that we will continue to go much higher.
- FX Empire•8 hours ago
S&P 500 very volatile ahead of the weekend
The S&P 500 was very volatile on Friday, ahead of the big Memorial Day weekend in the United States. The CFD markets might be open on Monday, but quite frankly the underlying S&P 500 won’t continue trading until Tuesday.
- Barrons.com•9 hours ago
[$$] World's Best CEOs: 30 Leaders With Talent to Spare
Big-company earnings per share swelled nearly 25% during the first quarter, the biggest gain since 2010. Exceptional chief executives are preparing for tomorrow’s challenges by putting today’s cash windfall to good use. Others are arms dealers to companies investing online, including list newcomers James Whitehurst at Red Hat (RHT) and Jayshree Ullal at Arista Networks (ANET).
- The Wall Street Journal•9 hours ago
U.S. Stocks Stall as Oil Falls and Global Worries Mount
U.S. stocks stalled Friday but hung on to weekly gains, as tumbling oil prices and worries over political risks from North Korea to Italy kept investors on guard ahead of the holiday-lengthened weekend. Stock indexes around the world struggled to gain ground this week as geopolitical rifts drove investors into relatively safe assets such as government bonds and gold.
- The Wall Street Journal•9 hours ago
[$$] Best-Paying Industry? It’s Not Banking
Most companies that pay six figures to the majority of their workers aren’t big banks or money managers, but biotech firms that rely on medical researchers, and energy and technology companies with a large number of engineers and technical staff. Nearly half of those were in the energy industry, including oil and gas drillers, refiners and electric utilities. Together, the energy companies employ more than 600,000 people, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of federal filings and company-employment data from S&P Global Market Intelligence Capital IQ.
- The Wall Street Journal•9 hours ago
Netflix Is Now as Big as Disney
The milestone for Netflix is the latest sign that investors remain faithful to the handful of technology and internet firms that have powered the broader market in the past few years.
- Investing.com•13 hours ago
Top 5 Things That Moved Markets This Past Week
Investing.com – Top 5 things that rocked U.S. markets this week
Reuters•13 hours agoInvestors find little appetite for consumer staples
The sector, which includes suppliers of so-called recession-proof items ranging from toilet paper and toothpaste to canned soup and cookies, has fallen 13 percent in 2018, on track for its first annual decline since 2008, while the S&P 500 (.SPX) is up 1.7 percent year-to-date. Investors have been turning away from staples companies because they are grappling with changing consumer preferences, fierce competition and other obstacles to raising prices even as their costs swell. On top of this, the sector - long viewed as a defensive play partly because of its high dividends and predictable growth rate - faces tough competition from fixed income investments while U.S. Treasury yields are rising, and from other equities as most industry groups are generating faster earnings growth.
- Barrons.com•14 hours ago
After the Bell: Dow Zigs, Zags and Who Knows Where It's Headed Next
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid today along with just about everything else. Nothing could be done to please stock, oil, or commodities investors Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, crude, and even gold were bleeding ahead of the long weekend. Bullish patterns have been a disappointment in the last few months, but they are “at our backs,” writes Frank Cappelleri, Instinet technical analyst.
Associated Press•14 hours agoFor CEOs, $11.7 million a year is just middle of the pack
Chief executives at the biggest public companies got an 8.5 percent raise last year, bringing the median pay package for CEOs to $11.7 million. Across the S&P 500, compensation for CEOs is often hundreds of times higher than typical workers. The pay increase matches the bump that CEOs received in 2016, according to salary, stock and other compensation data analyzed by Equilar for The Associated Press.
- MarketWatch•14 hours ago
Why mutual fund managers on a hot streak may be too good for your money
Instead, the hot hands of even the best investors must eventually cool because their success attracts too much money and eventually overwhelms their market-beating abilities. The key to finding a market-beating investment adviser, therefore, is to find someone after they’ve played their hot hand but before they’ve attracted too much money. Bill Miller, former manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust (LMVTX) , (now ClearBridge Value Trust) is the investment arena’s poster child of an adviser whose incredibly hot hand suddenly became as cold as ice.
- MarketWatch•14 hours ago
Why you probably have less money invested in stocks than you should
Investing confidence has more to do with you than your ageDMAMBMCMDMEMGZBZBRZDZQZRZSZTZUIt is risky to ride a bicycle blindfolded. It is risky to walk over broken glass barefoot. It is risky to drink a hot beverage without checking its temperature.
- MarketWatch•14 hours ago
Abiomed to join S&P 500, stock slips after hours
Abiomed Inc. will join the S&P 500 index replacing Wyndham Worldwide Corp. , S&P Dow Jones Indices said late Friday. The Danvers, Mass. based medical device company is expected to move to the S&P 500 before ...
Reuters•15 hours agoS&P 500 companies return $1 trillion to shareholders in tax-cut surge
S&P 500 companies have returned a record $1 trillion to shareholders over the past year, helped by a recent surge in dividends and stock buybacks following sweeping corporate tax cuts introduced by Republicans, a report on Friday showed. In the 12 months through March, S&P 500 companies paid out $428 billion in dividends and bought up $573 billion of their own shares, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices analyst Howard Silverblatt. Earnings per share of S&P 500 companies surged 26 percent in the March quarter, boosted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Republican lawmakers in December.
Reuters•15 hours agoS&P 500 companies return $1 trillion to shareholders in tax-cut surge
By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - S&P 500 companies have returned a record $1 trillion to shareholders over the past year, helped by a recent surge in dividends and stock buybacks following sweeping corporate tax cuts introduced by Republicans, a report on Friday showed. In the 12 months through March, S&P 500 companies paid out $428 billion in dividends and bought up $573 billion of their own shares, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices analyst Howard Silverblatt. Earnings per share of S&P 500 companies surged 26 percent in the March quarter, boosted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Republican lawmakers in December.
- Motley Fool•15 hours ago
What Happened in the Stock Market Today
On a day the market fell on tumbling oil prices, Foot Locker jumped on a strong profit and Gap sank due to weakness in its flagship brand.
- Bloomberg•16 hours ago
S&P 500 Winners and Losers for 05/25
These are today's winners and losers from the S&P 500. More from Bloomberg.comTrump Welcomes ‘Warm’ North Korea Statement as ‘Very Good News’North Korea Says It Remains Willing to Meet With U.S.
- Associated Press•16 hours ago
How major US stock indexes fared Friday
Energy companies and oil prices took their worst losses in months Friday on reports OPEC countries plan to produce more oil soon. Stock indexes finished an indecisive week with small losses.
Associated Press•16 hours agoStocks dip as oil prices and energy companies fall sharply
Energy companies and oil prices took their worst losses in months Friday on reports OPEC countries plan to produce more oil soon. U.S. crude oil sank 4 percent after multiple reports indicated that Russia and OPEC could start producing more oil soon. The drop in the price of oil has meant sharp losses for energy companies, but it gave airlines a boost as investors anticipated lower fuel costs.
Bloomberg•16 hours agoStocks Sit Still While Investors Cheer Up
After one of the most chaotic quarters of the bull market, stocks have settled back into the slumber that prevailed for the previous 20 months. Statistics from Ned Davis Research Inc. reflect a similar trend. “Earnings have been fantastic, the economic data is solid if not spectacular, meaning we would get a decent economic growth that won’t be fast enough for the Fed to accelerate the tightening cycle,” said Ed Clissold, chief U.S. strategist at Venice, Florida-based Ned Davis.
Reuters Videos•16 hours agoFalling oil prices weigh on S&P 500, Dow
The S&P 500 and Dow eased on Friday after a steep drop in oil prices pressured energy stocks. Fred Katayama reports.
