The U.S. stock market ended the first half of 2025 with back-to-back record highs, defying a rollicking few months of trade tensions and economic uncertainty that sent it deep into negative terrain in April.
Wall Street’s worries about Trump’s tariffs have receded since the president stunned the world in April with stiff proposed levies, but they have not disappeared.
It might be tempting to make dramatic changes to your investments right now, but it’s important to resist that impulse, advisers say.
The tariff-induced extremes that have gripped Wall Street have been mirrored by a surprising fortitude among everyday people invested in the stock market, financial advisers and analysts say.
Hanging over the market are worries about President Trump’s anger at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates to help give the economy more juice.
The impact of the tariffs also has extended to merger and acquisition activity, with M&A attorneys trying to keep pace with Trump’s starts, stops and pauses.
Wednesday’s gains were widespread across the market, with 98% of the stocks in the S&P 500 index rallying. The rally pulled the index away from the edge of a bear market.
Hope still remains on Wall Street that negotiations may be possible. The country’s top trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer, said roughly 50 countries have already been in contact about new tariff deals.
Few sectors were spared in trading Friday, a day after U.S. companies lost $2 trillion in value.
Syra Health Corp. plans to offer stock on the over-the-counter market after the company failed to meet Nasdaq Stock Market’s price requirements for its shares.
The S&P 500 is down more than 5% this year and is on track for its first losing quarter since September 2023.
The U.S. stock market has just dropped 10% from its high set last month. Wall Street has a name for such a decline: a “correction.”
It was the worst day yet in a scary stretch where the S&P 500 has swung more than 1%, up or down, seven times in eight days.
The worry is that the whipsaw moves will either hurt the economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive U.S. companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis.
The Indianapolis-based retail real estate investment trust reported fourth-quarter funds from operations that met analyst expectations.
DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store Monday, propelled by curiosity about the ChatGPT competitor.
The overall increases were slightly less than economists had forecast. U.S. markets leapt higher immediately on the new inflation data.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite index rose to record highs, as investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence fueled a massive bull run, and investors cheered the Fed’s shift to lower interest rates.
U.S. markets’ stellar run this year has been driven by a growing economy, solid consumer spending and a strong jobs market.
U.S. stocks soared higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. Here’s a look at some of the numbers that defined the year.
