The stock market has a secret weapon that's powering record highs By Christine Ji Liu Yanan/Xinhua via Getty Images Jun 30, 2025, 9:18 AM PT ...

The US stock market on Friday hit an all-time high, its first since mid-February. It marked the culmination of a remarkable recovery on Wall Street since flirting with bear market territory in ...

The stock market has been on a tear in recent weeks, shrugging off newly imposed tariffs, caution at the Federal Reserve and war in the Middle East. The S & P 500 has soared 20% since an April low ...

Stock forecasters can't stop talking about the market's smallest and least impressive stocks. They're referring to the small-cap sector, an area of the stock market that strategists have been ...

The S&P 500 on Thursday flirted with closing at an all-time high, vying to complete a whirlwind roundtrip that saw the benchmark US stock index shed and then regain $9.8 trillion in market value ...

But in general, for the money you can afford to invest for the long haul, he said, use low-cost, diversified stock index funds. They reduce the risk of picking the wrong individual stocks and they ...

Key Takeaways U.S. stock and bond markets will close early Thursday and remain shut on Friday to mark Independence Day. Traders' next scheduled day off is Labor Day, which falls on Monday, Sept. 1.