"Everbody's Happy Nowadays" sang the Buzzcocks in 1979. That seems like it's also the case for investors in 2026. The number of national stock market hitting 52 week highs has surged to 47 out of 70,

Since 2023, the S&P 500 has generated a return of 21% per year on average -- essentially triple the index's long-term average. While AI remains the market's biggest theme, smart investors are looking beyond soaring stock prices and paying attention to more nuanced valuation indicators.

For the Tiger 21 group and other investors like them, stronger allocation to cash and fixed income signals a renewed appetite for liquidity and steady yields after years of near-zero interest rates, while growing exposure to gold — and even itcoin — reflects a search for alternative stores of value.

The U.S. stock market was up as it approached the closing bell with the S&P 500’s modest gains putting it on pace for a new all-time high. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% to trade around 6,978, according to FactSet data,

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street set records on Thursday, even as a sell-off for Oracle and worries about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology weighed on the market. The S&P 500 inched up 0.2% and eked past its prior all-time closing high ...

Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) stock is surging to three-year highs today, up 11% at $53.88 at last glance, as investors grow optimistic regarding the company's fourth-quarter report, due out after the close tomorrow. Data center building is boosting chip demand, while CEO Lip-Bu Tan's turnaround efforts could begin to yield results.

Investors are getting accustomed to a familiar pattern known on Wall Street as ‘TACO’ — the assumption that the president eventually reverses policies that threaten to sink the market