"Here's a very rudimentary but essential thing to be aware of - in 1999 the S&P finished at 1469, earned 53 bucks per share, and paid out $16 in dividends," writes Brown.

�With the exception of June and July, just as the shorts quickly scrambled to cover fast-evaporating gains, never has the short index outflanked the performance of the broader S&P 500 index,� Wilkinson wrote. �That tells us that on those occasions when ...

Regarding the latter, Ashraf Laidi, chief global strategist at City Index, points out that the past two big rallies in the S&P 500, which started in early 1994 and in late 2002, lasted 23 quarters and 20 quarters, respectively. The current surge from ...

All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose, led by a 1.7% increase in banks and insurers. Financial stocks are up the most in the past month, 6.1%.

Stocks bounced back from Thursday's loss to put the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) back up to yet another new record at 1667.

Market capitalization is an important data point for investors to keep an eye on, for various reasons. The most basic reason is that it gives a true comparison of the value attributed by the stock market to a given company's stock.

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Investor strategist Laszlo Birinyi, who accurately predicted the S&P 500 would break 1,600, told CNBC on Tuesday he thinks the closely watched index could eclipse 1,900 in the longer term.

U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its eighth record high in the past nine sessions, on increased optimism over growth in the world's largest economy.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: SPY) was set for its fourth straight week of gains and traded near an all-time high Friday after a measure of consumer sentiment came in better than expected.