2026 S&P 500 Outlook: A History-Based Forecast With A 12% Expected Gain

Explore a probability-based forecast for the S&P 500 in 2026, highlighting risks, upside potential, and key tech sector influences.
Seeking Alpha

This Is How Hard It Is To Justify Investing In The S&P 500

Wide swathes of the investing public have their retirement funds tied to the fate of the S&P 500. The fact that we are likely in an AI bubble means that millions of folks stand to lose massive amounts ...
The Motley Fool

Here's How Much You'd Need to Invest in an S&P 500 Index Fund Each Month to Grow Your Portfolio to $1 Million Within 30 Years

Investing in the stock market each month can be an effective way to build up your wealth over the years. There's no one right way to invest in the stock market. You can invest a big lump sum and watch ...
NPR

The surprisingly lucrative business of making a list of 500 stocks

This comes from the Planet Money newsletter. Subscribe now to get more insights into how our economy works delivered to your inbox each week. Once a month, from 1989 to 2019, David Blitzer walked into ...
NetEye Blog

Optimizing Galera: Safe Backups via Asynchronous Replication

For the Galera cluster to perform well, we need to watch several factors, including CPU, memory, and disk I/O. It’s unwise to make backups during a busy day since physical backups can overload nodes, ...
Reuters

Robinhood to join S&P 500 in watershed moment for US fintech sector

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets (HOOD.O), opens new tab will replace casino operator Caesars Entertainment in the benchmark S&P 500, marking a pivotal moment for the financial technology sector ...
Forbes

Invested In Apple Stock 10 Years Ago? Here's How You've Performed Against The S&P 500

Apple stock has dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 over the last decade but it is worth remembering that past performance does not predict the future. Read on to learn how much Apple stock has ...
Reuters

S&P lifts India's rating to BBB in first upgrade since 2007

MUMBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings on Thursday upgraded India's long-term sovereign credit rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB-', the first upgrade in 18 years, citing strong economic growth, ...
Morningstar

Is another S&P 500 change on the horizon? Here's what to know.

The Paramount-Skydance deal could open the door for a membership change, but Robinhood and AppLovin may once again miss out on inclusion Paramount Global's pending sale to Skydance Media could set the ...
Investopedia

S&P 500 Is Getting More Bitcoin Exposure as Block Joins the Club

Block joined the S&P 500 this morning. The Bitcoin-focused payments company will be the second blockchain company to join the club. Shares of Block have risen 9% since the announcement that it would ...
MarketWatch

S&P 500 just saw its first ‘golden cross’ in more than 2 years. Here’s what comes next.

The S&P 500 is kicking off the second half of 2025 in style. For the first time in more than two years, the benchmark index tallied a bullish “golden cross” on Tuesday. It was just the latest ...
CNN

The S&P 500 just ended the day inches away from completing a $9.8 trillion roundtrip. Here’s what’s going on

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 roughly $9.8 trillion in market ...