General Motors is still in the "early innings" of its recovery, but it won't be long before it rejoins the S&P 500 largest companies and gets its bond rating back to investment grade, GM CEO Dan Akerson said Saturday. Speaking at the commencement for ...

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) has been hitting record highs lately, leading some to wonder whether the stock market is overpriced.

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.

Now that the transition in focus from 2013-Q2 to 2014-Q1 seems assured, we can expect the recent rapid run-up of stock prices to taper off, as the change in the growth rate of stock prices will converge with that expected for the S&P 500's dividends ...

Jonathan Golub, US equity strategist at UBS, said earnings trends for companies in the financial sector have been among the strongest on the S&P 500. Mr Golub upgraded his recommendation for the sector to �buy� from �hold�, adding that financials could ...

The popular S&P 500 tracks the shares of large industrial companies and is the basis for many index mutual funds. Kansas City Southern will trade places with Deans Foods Co.

�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 ...

J.P. Morgan strategists have lifted their year-end target on the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX to 1,715 from 1,580 based on a better bull market than they expected.

The day's gains were broad, with nine of the S&P 500's 10 sectors ending higher. Among the top gainers were the consumer staples sector index .

"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.