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The S&P 500 closed at 6,118.71 on January 23, 2025, finishing above 6,100 for the first time in the index’s history. The move gave Wall Street another clean milestone in a market that had already spent months grinding to fresh highs, and it did so with a familiar cast at the center of the action:…
American consumers appear to have carried solid spending momentum into November as the holiday shopping season moved into full swing, with early retail signals pointing to another healthy month for household demand. The official government reading on personal spending had not yet been released, but the available evidence suggested shoppers were still spending at a…
Mortgage application activity moved higher in early December as borrowing costs stayed near their lowest levels of the year, offering buyers and refinancers a modest opening after a housing market that has spent much of 2025 under pressure. The gain was real, but it was not the kind of broad-based surge that would signal a…
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