Wall Street pointed higher early Friday as more strong earnings results trickled in along with a closely-watched report from the U.S. government showing that inflation ticked higher. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.

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And despite historically high valuations, most Wall Street analysts expect the stock market to continue moving higher in the remaining months of the year. Here's what investors should know. Most Wall Street analysts anticipate strong returns in 2025 Shown below are year-end targets for the S&P 500 in 2025 set by various Wall Street banks and research firms.

Here’s why this story is so treacherous from a standpoint if you’re betting against US AI and companies like Nvidia.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.

Leaders at Microsoft and Meta told investors that China’s DeepSeek doesn’t harm their businesses and that they will still spend billions on AI data centers.

The weak pace of loan growth is a worry, particularly for regional lenders.

Optimists looking for an encore performance from Wall Street were handsomely rewarded in 2024. Last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite all achieved multiple record-closing highs and ended higher by 13%, 23%, and 29%, respectively.

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September

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