Wall Street hit new records as Donald Trump began his second term as 47th U.S. president this week. The S&P 500 index — as tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) — climbed above 6,100 points,

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Warren Buffett's outsized returns at Berkshire Hathaway over six decades have earned him a large following on Wall Street. Buffett didn't purchase his favorite stock for the first time in more than six years -- and that's a big deal.

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What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.

Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow at a more than one-month high, as investors assessed President Donald Trump’s executive orders after taking office and awaited his first move on trade policy. In morning trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 423 points, or 1%, to 43,911.

Some of the Oracle of Omaha's most-popular buys -- as well as Berkshire's largest holding -- offer robust upside potential in 2025.

Wall Street's main indexes closed lower on Friday as investors stepped back while they digested a mixed bag of economic data and earnings reports and prepared for a week filled with economic releases and a Federal Reserve meeting.

A prominent player in the field has been OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup known to have started the AI arms race in the first place. In its latest, OpenAI has recently previewed an AI agent that can carry out tasks on the web for users. This move seeks to enhance its chatbot amidst intensifying competition.

These five smaller-cap companies pay huge dividends and could offer passive income investors enormous returns for 2025 and beyond.

Wall Street remains upbeat about its future. Of the 37 analysts who cover Visa, 30 rate it as a buy, seven rate it as a hold, and none rate it as a sell. It's also still trading well below the Street's highest price target of $378 -- which was set by Bernstein's Harshita Rawat earlier this month.