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The S&P 500 Has Soared 92% During This Bull Market. History Says the Stock Market Will Do This in 2026. Historically, the S&P 500 has returned an average of 184% during bull markets.

The economy is looking resilient and there are bargains below the AI surface. Where to invest in the new year.

Here's what you need to know about whether U.S. stock markets will be open or closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year.

Wall Street set records, even as a sell-off for Oracle and worries about a potential bubble in artificial intelligence technology weighed on the market.

Michael Burry predicted a Netscape-style fate for OpenAI. He also defended his bearish calls from critics in a weekend posting spree on X.

Dutch Bros is raising capital for a reason, of course. The store count has exploded from 503 drive-through coffee shops in September 2021 to 1,043 locations in the latest report. And nearly all of the additional stores are company-owned, while the number of franchised operations only increased by 20%.

Wall Street strategists are generally pretty optimistic about the prospects for stocks in 2026. But this sunny outlook is very much dependent on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy maneuverings, as Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid pointed out in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.

Crypto had a rough November. The pain is persisting into December — and that could signal trouble ahead for the stock market.

Now up by nearly 2,000% since going public more than five years ago, Palantir is the 22nd-largest company in the world by market capitalization, worth $433 billion. Is the stock set to soar yet again in the new year? Or will 2026 finally be the year that Palantir has its comeuppance?

As part of the big rotation gripping the U.S. stock market on Thursday, a popular bank exchange-traded fund was headed for a record close. The State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF was up 1%, trading at $62.