A soft finish to 2024 still left stocks with a second straight stellar year. The S&P 500 logged a 23.3% gain, which follows a 24% rise in 2023. The combined gains of more than 53% was the largest two-year percentage jump for the index since year-end 1998,

U.S. stock indexes are starting 2025 with gains on Thursday. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% in morning trading and was on track to break a four-day losing streak that dimmed the end of its stellar 2024. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 317 points,

Investors head into the new year believing the economy on a firm footing. That wasn’t the case at the start of 2024, when even the most bullish analysts underestimated the strength of the market.

U.S. stock indexes are losing ground in afternoon trading Tuesday, on pace for a downbeat finish for Wall Street as it closes out another milestone-shattering year of gains. The S&P 500 gave up an early gain and was down 0.6%. The benchmark index is coming off back-to-back declines of more than 1%.

Stock indexes closed mostly lower on Wall Street on the final day of another record-setting year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% Tuesday, but still managed to rack up a gain of 23.3% for the year, its second straight year with gains of more than 20%.

Indexes rose Thursday to kick off the New Year after four straight days of losses. Tesla stock dropped more than 8% publishing delivery figures.

S&P 500 futures are up 0.6%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are gaining 0.4%. Nasdaq 100 futures are adding 0.8%. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 30 points, or 0.07%, to 42,544,

U.S. stock indexes are starting 2025 with some modest moves. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in early Thursday trading and was on track to break a four-day losing streak, its

Stocks opened higher in the final session of 2024 but quickly ran out of steam. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.07% at 42,544, the S&P 500 was off 0.4% to 5,881, and the Nasdaq Composite was 0.