The following table shows the largest weekly changes in the 90%-110% skew spread, a measure of how expensive puts, or bearish bets, are relative to calls.

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Fed interest rates near zero and the expanding economy are allowing S&P 500 companies with the lowest working capital, smallest earnings and highest debt ratios to reduce borrowing costs and avoid default.

Akerson planned to say at the Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business commencement ceremony Saturday that the automaker is �on the cusp� of the improved credit rating and will probably rejoin the S&P 500 �before too long,� according to a copy of his ...

For example, the S&P 500 consolidated in a 60-point range from early March through early May� finding a bottom near 1,540 and peaking near 1,600.

The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at record highs. The Dow gained 121.18 points, 0.8%, to 15,354.40.

May 21 (Reuters) - *Goldman Sachs sees S&P 500 at 1,750 by year end 2013 *Goldman Sachs sees S&P 500 at 1,900 by 2014; 2,100 by 2015 *Goldman Sachs forecasts dividends will rise by 30 pct in next two years, dividend yields likely to stay around 2 pct ...

Futures pointed to a slightly lower open, and that's what we got. On a day with no economic news, the S&P 500 stuttered for the first ninety minutes and then rallied to its intraday high, up 0.43 percent, at midday.

�The forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 now stands at 14.4, based on yesterday's closing price (1650.47) and forward 12-month EPS estimate ($114.94).

As of Friday's close the S&P 500 is up +16.9% in 2013. If stocks kept up this torrid pace, then they would be up +52% on the year.