The biggest losers in the S&P 500 all faced disappointing sales and earnings. But large declines and extreme volatility can sometimes represent buying opportunities. Returning 25% in 2024, the S&P 500 delivered a record-breaking year for stock market investors.

The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into the long weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025.

Key Takeaways The S&P 500 slid 0.2% on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, losing momentum after posting solid gains driven by earnings and inflation optimism in the previous session.UnitedHealth shares dropped as slumping revenue and increasing medical costs weighed on the health insurer's quarterly results.

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Both of these funds have made for good, market-beating investments over the past 10 years. But by focusing on the Nasdaq-100, which includes the top non-financial stocks on the exchange, the Invesco fund has been the far better investment during that stretch.

The S&P 500 index’s biggest sector, information technology, was rising sharply Friday afternoon, but the gains were not quite large enough to lift it into positive territory so far in 2025. The tech sector was up 1.

Seven of the S&P 500's 11 sectors are expected to achieve cumulative year-over-year growth in normalized earnings per share among their constituent companies in fourth quarter 2024 earnings

A gauge of the U.S. equities market that equally weights stocks in the S&P 500 index was up again Friday, as the market continued its broad rally this week. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF was gaining 0.

The S&P 500 edged higher while the Nasdaq dipped after a volatile session on Tuesday as investors gauged inflation data and braced for quarterly earnings reports to justify stock valuations and the strength of the U.

The S&P 500 has given up almost all of its post-election gains, with renewed inflation fears crimping Wall Street optimism about President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts and deregulation. Strong economic data have dashed hopes for a slew of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve,

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq rose Friday on the last trading day of Joe Biden's presidency as the stock market braces for change under Donald Trump.