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In these charts, top Wall Street experts explain how inflation's decline and resilient economic growth, among other forces, have investors optimistic the stock market's 2024 rally has more room to ...
Stocks have surged to record highs at the start of 2024. Inflation has moderated, the Federal Reserve looks set to cut interest rates, and the vaunted "soft landing" for the US economy is coming ...
The Global Industry Classification Standard ( GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries [ 1] into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.
The 1948 recession was a brief economic downturn; forecasters of the time expected much worse, perhaps influenced by the poor economy in their recent lifetimes. [62] The recession also followed a period of monetary tightening. [40] Recession of 1953: July 1953 – May 1954 10 months 3 years 9 months 6.1% (September 1954) −2.6%
The 1973–1974 stock market crash caused a bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. Affecting all the major stock markets in the world, particularly the United Kingdom, [ 1] it was one of the worst stock market downturns since the Great Depression, the other being the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [ 2]
February 8, 2024 at 4:00 AM. Stocks are surging higher with the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) nearing 5,000 for the first time. To explain the rise, we recently asked some top Wall Street strategists to ...
The NASDAQ spiked during the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, a result of the large number of technology companies on that index. In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures the performance of a stock market, or of a subset of a stock market. It helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices ...
The $45 trillion housing market, one of the biggest contributors to the U.S. economy, has suffered from an undersupply of homes for sale for most of the past two decades, a chronic condition made ...