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Consumer prices climbed 3.7% in the 12 months through September, up from 3.4% for August. Since 1950, the S&P 500 climbed over the following year after around 69% of months with inflation at 3.5% or above.

The S&P 500 went 53 straight trading days without a daily drop of 1% or more before a 1.1% drop on Oct. 14. The index rose over the next year after 40 of the 54 past streaks that hit 50 sessions.

Technology stocks are approaching their peak as a portion of the S&P 500, which could portend some rough months ahead.

Stocks steady as Dow gains offset AI weakness, while hot PPI keeps Fed risk in play and lower Treasury yields support gold's recovery.

The index may not move much because the stocks with the biggest weightings lag, but there's a bull market starting to bubble elsewhere, says a hedge-fund manager.

The AI boom is helping fuel earnings growth rates at multi-year highs. But most of that growth is coming from AI-linked tech and energy companies.

Steven Jon Kaplan sees a completely irrational stock market right now, and investors ignoring a perfectly safe way to play that.

The S&P 500 has been a stone's throw away from 8,000 points since its midsummer rally, but many analysts and portfolio managers are skeptical the ​broad US index will close the gap despite strong third-quarter earnings expectations.

The artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure build-out has propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite to record highs. Despite the benchmark S&P 500 romping to an all-time high, 84% of its components are in official correction territory -- down at least 10%.

The S&P 500 is having another strong year. That's important ahead of the midterms for a variety of reasons.