Stocks are up more than 12% this year. Where do they go from here?
CNN
It's the half-way point of the year and Wall Street has quite the rally to show for itself: The S&P 500 has already reached the target some analysts set for the entire year.
The index, the broadest measure of the US stock market, is up more than 14% in 2021, and just a few points below the 4,300 mark — a target Goldman Sachs (GS) had set for the end of the year. Both the S&P and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) are at or near record highs. The Nasdaq has advanced nearly 13% this year.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.