The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into the long weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025.

The S&P 500 slid 0.2% on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, losing momentum after posting solid gains driven by earnings and inflation optimism in the previous session.

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Seven of the S&P 500's 11 sectors are expected to achieve cumulative year-over-year growth in normalized earnings per share among their constituent companies in fourth quarter 2024 earnings

The benchmark S&P 500 opened slightly higher on Thursday following strong gains in the previous session, as investors assessed softer-than-expected retail sales data and a set of strong bank earnings.

The S&P 500 index’s biggest sector, information technology, was rising sharply Friday afternoon, but the gains were not quite large enough to lift it into positive territory so far in 2025. The tech sector was up 1.

The S&P 500 has given up almost all of its post-election gains, with renewed inflation fears crimping Wall Street optimism about President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts and deregulation. Strong economic data have dashed hopes for a slew of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve,

Bank stocks broadly rallied Wednesday as investors cheered the kickoff of earnings season and expressed a sigh of relief over fresh data showing a cooling in core inflation.

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