S&P 500

Cultural

An index of stock prices issued by Standard and Poor, a major credit-rating agency, and indicating price movements of the shares of five hundred major companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange. (Compare Dow Jones Industrial Average .)

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down 0.2% on Monday, while the S&P 500 inched 0.04% higher and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.4%.

From Barron's

The S&P 500 is clinging to an unremarkable yearly gain, up less than 1% in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the S&P 500 has traded within a range of just 2.7% in 2026, the average company in the index has moved within a band that is about seven times as much, according to Barclays data through Feb. 13.

From The Wall Street Journal

For years, the rapid growth of AI has been a tailwind for stocks, propelling the S&P 500 to double-digit returns in 2023, 2024 and 2025 following OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in late 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal

But a rally in energy and tech helped the S&P 500 notch its biggest intraday recovery since November.

From The Wall Street Journal

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