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,

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The Standard & Poor’s 500 gave up an early gain to finish down 0.4%. The benchmark index, which set 57 record highs in 2024, racked up a 23.3% gain for the year. This was its second straight year with a gain of more than 20%. The last time the index had as big a back-to-back annual gain was 1998.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks closed broadly lower Monday as a banner year on Wall Street looked set to finish on a sour note. The S&P 500 fell 1.1%, its third straight decline. Roughly 90% of stocks within the index lost ground. On the second-to-last day of 2024, the benchmark index was still on track for its second straight yearly gain of more than 20%.

The market outlook for 2025 sees U.S. GDP growing at a healthy rate, the stock market gains diversifying beyond the Magnificent Seven—with health care a likely winner—and an evolution in the AI sector that powered virtually all of last year’s rally.

An annual ritual is underway at the major Wall Street investment houses: predicting exactly where the S&P 500 will finish the next calendar year.

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