10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday after the best S&P 500 gain since the election

• Why S&P 500’s financials sector just booked its best day since early November

  Bank stocks were surging Wednesday.
  
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• Micron’s stock leads the S&P 500 for 2025. Here’s why more gains could follow.

  An analyst sees big upside ahead, fueled by rapid growth in high-bandwidth memory for AI.
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 9

• Researchers rated every S&P 500 company CEO since 2000. Here’s what they found.

  CEOs might not be so idolized if we realized that many wash out of the job quickly.
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 9

• S&P 500 starts January with gains after Santa rally busts. What to watch for next.

  A pair of closely watched but overlapping stock-market phenomena delivered a split decision for investors looking for clues to possible full-year performance. A tiebreaker awaits.
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 9

• This fund manager forecast a 20% S&P 500 gain last year. Now he says cash is king.

  Dan Niles, founder of Niles Investment Management, says the S&P could swing much higher or lower in 2025, and investors need to protect themselves.
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 7

• Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Tuesday

  Wall Street was looking at a muted open Tuesday after the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed higher for a second straight session
  
  CNBC - Jan. 7

• Here are the 5 things we're watching in the stock market in the week ahead

  Nvidia's Jensen Huang will be at CES, and investors will get a fresh batch of labor market data.
  
  CNBC - Jan. 5

• Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Friday

  Shipments from Tesla's Shanghai factory posted their first annual decline. A study on GLP-1 user behavior also caught my eye.
  
  CNBC - Jan. 3

• Walgreens and Intel lead list of stocks in the S&P 500 that fell hardest in 2024

  At the end of a second consecutive year during which the S&P 500 has risen more than 20%, two things investors need to remember are that time tends to smooth out performance and that the index is ...
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 1

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