UCLA distinguished professor Robert M. Kaplan has a simple question for Santa Cruz County. Echoing Ronald Reagan’s famous 1980 exchange with then-President Jimmy Carter, he wants to know if you are ...

Mr Trump “being Vladimir Putin’s lapdog” is no worse than Joe Biden being that of Binyamin Netanyahu, wrote Alex Lo in the ...

Tariffs aren’t the only concern in Washington DC. A looming government shutdown could temporarily roil the markets too.

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Finally, politics have always played a role in the economy. Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush lost reelection bids to challengers who were able to exploit economic downturns to ...

The "Magnificent Seven" stocks now make up 35.4% of the S&P 500, a significant increase from 12.3% in 2015. From 2015 to 2024, these seven tech giants returned 697.6%, far outpacing the S&P's 178. ...

Consumers also expressed a worsened outlook for inflation in the year ahead. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) shed 0.5% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) lost 0.7%, reversing earlier gains.

The S&P 500 has a bottom-up target (a metric based on the median fair value estimate on each stock in the index) of 6,920, which implies 13% upside. Microsoft is ideally positioned to monetize ...

The filing showed that the conglomerate completely exited its S&P 500 index funds, among other things. It was a wise move as the S&P 500 is currently approaching an all-time high valuation ...

The S&P 500 has returned 71% since entering bull market territory in October 2022. Since its inception, the S&P 500 has returned an average of 184% during bull markets. Inflation and historically ...