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Biggest Market Movers Today, Nov. 21: CAVA, ESTC, & More: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/844127/tickervolcano-purple.png
Biggest Market Movers Today, Nov. 21: CAVA, ESTC, & More

This week has been a volatile one for the stock market, but Wall Street was able to finish on a positive note on Friday. Investors have had to speculate whether the numerous challenges that

Down 14% in 2025, Here's How Home Depot Stock Can Recover in 2026: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/843693/hd-flower.jpg
Down 14% in 2025, Here's How Home Depot Stock Can Recover in 2026

Shares of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) slid 6% on Nov. 18 after the home improvement retailer reported fiscal 2025 third-quarter results and lowered its full-year guidance.

Home Depot is now down 14% in

Biggest Stock Movers Today, Nov. 20: PACS, BBWI, & More: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/843889/bullbearimage-green.png
Biggest Stock Movers Today, Nov. 20: PACS, BBWI, & More

Stock markets finished the day mostly lower on Thursday, reversing from early gains. Investors were initially excited that AI chip giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported quarterly results that were

Why Shares of Quantum Computing Are Soaring Today: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/842907/happy-stock-investor-holding-smartphone.jpg
Why Shares of Quantum Computing Are Soaring Today

Markets are off to a bearish start this week as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are dipping lower. Shares of Quantum Computing (NASDAQ: QUBT) are rocketing higher, however, as investors

President Donald Trump Wants to Give Low- and Middle-Income Americans a $2,000 Tariff Stimulus Check -- but It Would Come With Unintended Consequences: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/842668/49029187737_d03e7f3dd3_k.jpg
President Donald Trump Wants to Give Low- and Middle-Income Americans a $2,000 Tariff Stimulus Check -- but It Would Come With Unintended Consequences

In less than seven weeks, when the stock market crosses the finish line for 2025, we're likely to look back on another phenomenal year for Wall Street. The widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC)

The S&P 500 Just Did Something That Was Last Witnessed Less Than a Year Before the Dot-Com Bubble Burst -- and History Is Clear What Comes Next for Stocks: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/842520/stock-market-crash-plunge-dollar-newspaper-invest-dow-sp-500-getty.jpg
The S&P 500 Just Did Something That Was Last Witnessed Less Than a Year Before the Dot-Com Bubble Burst -- and History Is Clear What Comes Next for Stocks

With less than seven weeks to go before the curtain closes on 2025, it appears as if Wall Street's major stock indexes will be logging another banner year. Although the ride has been bumpy at times

This ETF Has Crushed the Dow Jones and S&P 500 in 2025. Here's How It Can Keep Winning in 2026.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/842078/nuke.jpg
This ETF Has Crushed the Dow Jones and S&P 500 in 2025. Here's How It Can Keep Winning in 2026.

It looks like the energy sector will disappoint investors this year as the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund has produced gains of less than half those delivered by the S&P 500.

Drilling deeper, pun

The Stock Market Is at All-Time Highs, but This Hidden Indicator Says Caution Ahead: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/841560/fear-greed-index-investor-sentiment.jpg
The Stock Market Is at All-Time Highs, but This Hidden Indicator Says Caution Ahead

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC), and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) are trading at levels that hover right around all-time highs.

^SPX data by Y

The Newest History-Making Moment for the S&P 500 Can Serve as a Dire Warning for Wall Street and Investors: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/841743/nyse-floor-trader-stock-market-invest-buy-sell-fed-wall-street-getty.jpg
The Newest History-Making Moment for the S&P 500 Can Serve as a Dire Warning for Wall Street and Investors

Volatility is the price of admission investors pay for access to the world's greatest long-term wealth creator, the stock market. While other asset classes have produced nominal gains over time

Michael Burry's Bets Against AI Stocks Nvidia and Palantir: What Investors Should Know: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/841826/michael-burry-nvda-stock-pltr-stock-bear-bets-the-big-short-put-options-ai-bubble.png
Michael Burry's Bets Against AI Stocks Nvidia and Palantir: What Investors Should Know

The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite indexes declined by about 1.6% and 3%, respectively, this week. The Dow was also down over 1%. This was the Nasdaq Composite's worst week since April

We Just Witnessed an Ultra-Rare S&P 500 Event That's Occurred 5 Times in 55 Years -- and History Is Crystal Clear What Comes Next: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/841590/nyse-floor-trader-invest-buy-sell-options-stock-exchange-getty.png
We Just Witnessed an Ultra-Rare S&P 500 Event That's Occurred 5 Times in 55 Years -- and History Is Crystal Clear What Comes Next

It's been quite the ride for Wall Street's major stock indexes in 2025. In early April, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), and growth

Could Buying the Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF Today Set You Up for Life?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/841121/23_05_14-a-person-writing-the-word-dividends-_mf-dload.jpg
Could Buying the Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF Today Set You Up for Life?

Investing isn't easy. If it were, everyone would do it. But there are shortcuts that can make it a lot less difficult. If you're a dividend-loving investor, the Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF

Nobel Prize Winning Economist Robert Shiller Just Issued a Stark Warning For Investors -- Here's Where He Sees Stocks Heading Over the Next 10 Years: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/840615/getty-images-newspaper-where-next-future-of-market-decline-bear-recession-1200x800-5b2df79.jpg
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Robert Shiller Just Issued a Stark Warning For Investors -- Here's Where He Sees Stocks Heading Over the Next 10 Years

We're less than two months away from the end of the year, and 2025 is shaping up to be another historic one for U.S. stocks. All three major indexes -- the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite, and the Dow

Think You Missed Your Chance to Invest? It's Not Too Late to Start Smart: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/838014/24_07_15-a-person-kissing-a-piggy-bank-_mf-dload-1200x800-5b2df79.jpg
Think You Missed Your Chance to Invest? It's Not Too Late to Start Smart

The S&P 500 is hovering near all-time highs, which may make some worry that they've missed their chance to invest. That's the wrong way to think about investing. You don't build wealth in a day, a

The Stock Market Is Getting Dangerously Close to Becoming the Most Expensive It's Ever Been (Dating Back to 1871) -- and History Points to Trouble Ahead: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/840374/nyse-floor-trader-stock-market-invest-buy-sell-fed-wall-street-getty.jpg
The Stock Market Is Getting Dangerously Close to Becoming the Most Expensive It's Ever Been (Dating Back to 1871) -- and History Points to Trouble Ahead

Although it's been a bumpy ride, 2025 has turned out to be another banner year for Wall Street and investors. Recently, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average

Prediction: This Blue Chip Dow Jones Stock Will Become a Dividend King in 2026: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839795/a-stack-of-blue-poker-chips-with-a-bar-chart-in-the-background.jpg
Prediction: This Blue Chip Dow Jones Stock Will Become a Dividend King in 2026

1976 is remembered by many as the bicentennial of the founding of the United States. But it was also the year that Dow Jones Industrial Average component McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) issued its first

The Stock Market Is Doing Something for the 7th Time Since 1990 -- It Hints at a Very Big Move in the Next Year: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/840135/market-16.jpeg
The Stock Market Is Doing Something for the 7th Time Since 1990 -- It Hints at a Very Big Move in the Next Year

The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) is one of three major U.S. stock market indexes alongside the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI). Whereas the

Why Shares of Mirion Technologies Are Soaring Today: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/840242/a-businesswoman-looks-at-a-cooling-tower-at-a-nuclear-power-plant.jpg
Why Shares of Mirion Technologies Are Soaring Today

While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) both seem likely to close lower today than where they ended yesterday's trading session, there seems to be

Worried About a Stock Market Sell-Off? Consider These 5 Dow Jones Dividend Stocks For 2026.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839605/stacks-of-coins-sprouting-increasingly-taller-plants-showcasing-the-concept-of-dividend-and-wealth-potential-in-the-stock-market.jpg
Worried About a Stock Market Sell-Off? Consider These 5 Dow Jones Dividend Stocks For 2026.

The S&P 500 is up 14.5% year to date and over 35% from its April lows. With valuations of many top companies extended, some investors may be wondering how long the market rally can last.

Investors

This Dividend-Paying Dow Jones Growth Stock Will Crush the S&P 500 (Again) in 2026: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/838936/an-investor-smiles-while-sitting-in-a-chair-and-looking-at-a-laptop-computer.jpg
This Dividend-Paying Dow Jones Growth Stock Will Crush the S&P 500 (Again) in 2026

2025 is shaping up to be the third consecutive year where the simplest way to produce market-beating returns is through megacap growth stocks -- especially those with exposure to artificial

Why Investors Drove Dow Stock Higher Today: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839956/person-using-a-smartphone-while-seated-at-a-desk-with-a-laptop.jpg
Why Investors Drove Dow Stock Higher Today

An analyst's price-target raise brightened the outlook on beaten-down chemical stock Dow (NYSE: DOW) on Monday. The company's shares enjoyed a nearly 4% gain on the day as a result, easily eclipsing

Meet the Newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock in the Dow Jones. It Has Soared 268% Since Early Last Year, and It's Still a Buy Right Now, According to Wall Street: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/836592/nvidia-headquarters-with-nvidia-sign-in-front.png
Meet the Newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock in the Dow Jones. It Has Soared 268% Since Early Last Year, and It's Still a Buy Right Now, According to Wall Street

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is home to some of the most storied, iconic American brands. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Disney, Home Depot, IBM, and Walmart are just a handful of the index's

3 No-Brainer Dow Jones Stocks to Buy Right Now: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839575/opportunity-compass-530977027.jpg
3 No-Brainer Dow Jones Stocks to Buy Right Now

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) market index is an elite club. Its 30 components are some of the best businesses in America, hand-picked and maintained by the five financial

Prediction: This Dividend-Paying Dow Jones Growth Stock Will Beat the S&P 500 For the 6th Consecutive Year in 2026: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839509/a-person-smiles-while-holding-shopping-bags-in-a-mall.jpg
Prediction: This Dividend-Paying Dow Jones Growth Stock Will Beat the S&P 500 For the 6th Consecutive Year in 2026

American Express (NYSE: AXP) just rocketed to an all-time high after a blowout earnings report and a raised forecast.

At the time of this writing, the financial stock is up 20% year-to-date compared

Is the Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF a Buy Now?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/839261/etf-with-digital-design.jpg
Is the Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF a Buy Now?

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has become the most-followed index on the stock market, surpassing the Dow Jones Industrial Average. That's largely because of index funds that track the S&P 500, and