View data of the S&P 500, an index of the stocks of 500 leading companies in the US economy, which provides a gauge of the U.S. equity market.

The S&P 500, an index of 500 publicly traded companies in the United States, closed at 5,881.63 points on the last trading day of December 2024. What is the S&P 500? The S&P 500 is a stock market index that tracks the evolution of 500 companies. In contrast to the Dow Jones Industrial Index, which measures the performance of thirty large U.S. companies, the S&P 500 shows the sentiments in the broader market. Publicly traded companies Companies on the S&P 500 are publicly traded, meaning that anyone can invest in them. A large share of adults in the United States invest in the stock market, though many of these are through a retirement account or mutual fund. While most people make a modest return, the most successful investors have made billions of U.S. dollars through investing.

In 2019, 7.2 percent of all S&P 500 companies in the United States were subject to core federal class action filings. 12.9 percent of S&P 500 companies in the health care sector were subject to core federal class action filings in that same year.

Between 2019 and June 2024 the U.S. share market has outperformed global precious metal prices, as measured by the S&P 500 and S&P GSCI precious metals indices respectively. While the difference between the two index values was around 980 points in January 2019, by June 2024 this had ballooned to roughly 2,400 index points. However, it is notable that the S&P GSCI precious metals index did not suffer the same sharp decline in March 2020 due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, suggesting that the precious metals market may be more stable the equities during periods of economic turmoil. The S&P 500 tracks the stock price of 500 of the publicly listed largest U.S. companies, while the S&P GSCI precious metals index tracks the price of precious metals futures contracts worldwide.

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Long term historical dataset of the NASDAQ Composite stock market index since 1971. Historical data is inflation-adjusted using the headline CPI and each data point represents the month-end closing value. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today's latest value.

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Between January 1 and March 18, 2020, 39 S&P 500 companies from the consumer discretionary sector cited the coronavirus in their fourth quarter 2019 earnings calls, as did 39 information technology companies. The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant negative impact on global financial markets.

The main stock market index in the United States (US500) decreased 176 points or 2.99% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from United States. United States Stock Market Index - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

As of August 2020, the S&P 500 index had lost 34 percent of its value due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Great Crash, which began with Black Tuesday, remains the most significant loss in value in its history. That market crash lasted for 300 months and wiped 86 percent off the index value.

Between March 4 and March 11, 2020, the S&P 500 index declined by twelve percent, descending into a bear market. On March 12, 2020, the S&P 500 plunged 9.5 percent, its steepest one-day fall since 1987. The index began to recover at the start of April and reached a peak in December 2021. As of December 29, 2024, the value of the S&P 500 stood at 5,942.47 points. Coronavirus sparks stock market chaos Stock markets plunged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fearing its spread would destroy economic growth. Buoyed by figures that suggested cases were leveling off in China, investors were initially optimistic about the virus being contained. However, confidence in the market started to subside as the number of cases increased worldwide. Investors were deterred from buying stocks, and this was reflected in the markets – the values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite also dived during the height of the crisis. What is a bear market? A bear market occurs when the value of a stock market suffers a prolonged decline of more than 20 percent over a period of at least two months. The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe concern and sent stock markets on a steep downward spiral. The S&P 500 achieved a record closing high of 3,386 on February 19, 2020. However, just over three weeks later, the market closed on 2,480, which represented a decline of around 26 percent in only 16 sessions.

Portfolio comparisons for the S&P 500 dataset from 1/1//2018 to 4/22/2019.

This statistic presents the returns of the S&P 500 Information Technology Index in the United States from 2007 to 2023. The IT sector had its worst year in 2008, where it lost 43.1 percent of its value. After three years of value gain, it lost 28.2 percent of its value in 2022. On the contrary, 2023 witnessed the second-highest value gain during this period, reaching 57.8 percent.

In 2023, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index outperformed other sectors, with annual return of 57.8 percent. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Utilities Index recorded the lowest returns, with a loss of 7.1 percent.

This paper investigates whether gold and silver can be considered safe havens by examining their long-run linkages with 13 stock price indices. More specifically, the stochastic properties of the differential between gold/silver prices and 13 stock indices are analysed applying fractional integration/cointegration methods to daily data, first for a sample from January 2010 until December 2019, then for one from January 2020 until June 2022 which includes the Covid-19 pandemic. The results can be summarised as follows. In the case of the pre-Covid-19 sample ending in December 2019, mean reversion is found for the gold price differential only vis-à-vis a single stock index (SP500). whilst in seven other cases, although the estimated value of d is below 1, the value 1 is inside the confidence interval and thus the unit root null hypothesis cannot be rejected. In the remaining cases the estimated values of d are significantly higher than 1. As for the silver differential, the upper bound is 1 only in two cases, whilst in the others mean reversion does not occur. Thus, the evidence is mixed on whether these precious metals can be seen as safe havens, though it appears that this property characterises gold in a slightly higher number of cases. By contrast, when using the sample starting in January 2020, the evidence in favour of gold and silver as possible safe havens is pretty conclusive since mean reversion is only found in a single case, namely that of the gold differential vis-à-vis the New Zealand stock index.

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The main stock market index in Israel (TA-125) increased 34 points or 1.41% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Israel. Israel Stock Market (TA-125) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

In August 2018, the U.S. based global real estate company Cushman & Wakefield completed an initial public offering and as of December 2019 before the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the cumulative total return of a 100 U.S. dollar investment had reached 141.26 U.S. dollars. In comparison, an equivalent investment in S&P 500 or peer group companies would have reached 128.9 U.S. dollars and 141.4 U.S. dollars, respectively. As of December 2023, the cumulative total return of a 100 U.S. dollars invested in Cushman & Wakefield in 2018, S&P 500, and peer group companies was 74.64 U.S. dollars, 190.27 U.S. dollars, and 184.27 U.S. dollars, respectively.

Many of the big winners included in the S&P 500 index from 2020 are companies firmly rooted in the technology sector. The obvious big winner is Tesla, whose share price increased by 7.5 times for a variety of reasons. While the increase in Tesla stocks (arguably) does not have a direct connection to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a look at many of the other companies in this list indicates a clear link. Online retailers such as Amazon and Etsy saw large increases in their stock price, along with companies who provide crucial parts of infrastructure necessary for online shopping such as PayPal and FedEx. Given the closure of brick and mortar stores in many parts of the world due to the pandemic, the causation here is evident. Similarly, computer chip manufactures NVIDIA and AMD saw returns of 100 percent or more, likely due both to the shift to remote working necessitated by the pandemic, as well as the global increase in playing video games resulting from the unavailability of many other activities.