Wall Street opens 2025 with gains

Stock market today: Wall Street opens 2025 with gains
U.S. stock indexes are starting 2025 with gains, putting Wall Street on track to break a four-day losing streak that dimmed the end of its stellar 2024. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% at the open of trading Thursday following its longest losing streak since early September.
Here's what Wall Street expects for the stock market in 2025 after 2 straight years of big gains
A soft finish to 2024 still left stocks with a second straight stellar year. The S&P 500 logged a 23.3% gain, which follows a 24% rise in 2023. The combined gains of more than 53% was the largest two-year percentage jump for the index since year-end 1998,
Why Wall Street Expects the Stock Market to Have a Big 2025
The estimated year-over-year S&P 500 earnings growth rate for 2025 hovers at 14.8 percent, according to FactSet. That’s well above the trailing 10-year average of eight percent, and the bump reflects an expectation for strength beyond the Big Tech names that have recently fueled the market.
Stock market today: Wall Street indexes lose ground as market closes another record-breaking year
Stock indexes closed mostly lower on Wall Street on the final day of another record-setting year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% Tuesday, but still managed to rack up a gain of 23.3% for the year, its second straight year with gains of more than 20%.
Wall Street’s predictions for the market and economy in 2025
The market outlook for 2025 sees U.S. GDP growing at a healthy rate, the stock market gains diversifying beyond the Magnificent Seven—with health care a likely winner—and an evolution in the AI sector that powered virtually all of last year’s rally.
Stock market today: Tech leads US stocks lower as Wall Street gets ready to wrap up 2024
The Dow ended more than 400 points lower on Monday, clawing back some of the deepest losses from earlier in the day.
Stock market today: Wall Street opens 2025 with modest moves as Tesla drags
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives says it’s the ”same tech playbook in year 3 of this tech AI driven bull market,” for example. All the optimism, though, can make contrarians feel nervous. A measure of how heavily Wall Street analysts are recommending stocks ...
Stock market today: Wall Street indexes drift higher into the close of another record-breaking year
Solid corporate earnings growth also helped. Wall Street expects companies in the S&P 500 to report broad earnings growth of more than 9% for the year, according to FactSet. The final figures will be tallied following fourth-quarter reports that start in a few weeks.
Stock market today: Wall Street opens higher going into the close of another record-breaking year
Markets have been energized by receding inflation, which has gotten closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. That raised hopes that the central bank would deliver multiple interest rate cuts into next year, which would ease borrowing costs and fuel more economic growth.
Stock market today: Indexes jump to kick off 2025 as market aims to snap 4-day losing streak
Indexes rose Thursday to kick off the New Year after four straight days of losses. Tesla stock dropped more than 8% publishing delivery figures.
Stock Market Today: Dow futures show 2025 starting on the front foot
S&P 500 futures are up 0.6%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are gaining 0.4%. Nasdaq 100 futures are adding 0.8%. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 30 points, or 0.07%, to 42,544,
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Market Street Bridge closed off due to Covelli Center fireworks display
The Market Street bridge into downtown Youngstown is closed until 1 a.m. New Year's Day. The city closed the bridge at 8 a.m.
Stock market today: Wall Street opens lower in final days of a banner year for US stocks
Asian shares are mixed after stocks fell broadly on Friday as Wall Street closed out a holiday-shortened week on a down note.