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A market-capitalization-weighted index of 500 large US publicly traded companies, widely used as the primary benchmark for US large-cap equity performance.
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US 10-year Treasury yields briefly hit 5.34% on Thursday, the highest since 2002, while traders priced only a modest chance of a Fed hike this month. Companies and governments rolling over debt are refinancing at the long-end price whatever the Fed decides.
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Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta added about 300 points to the S&P 500 in the third quarter while the other members subtracted about 150. With roughly 311 stocks down, most of an index fund's money sat in the group that lost ground.
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Sell ratings on Tesla have fallen to 13.1% of 61 analyst calls, the smallest bearish share since April 2023, according to Bloomberg data. The calls leaving sell are landing in hold as the stock lags, so analysts are backing off the bear case with no sign yet that they are paying for Musk's robotaxis.
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Andreessen Horowitz puts hyperscaler capex near $780 billion this year and tech at roughly 55% of US capital spending. Its charts also show free cash flow being squeezed, and the hyperscalers are relying more on debt to fund new chip capacity.
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S&P 500 boards appointed 364 new independent directors in 2026, the fewest since 2016, and 37% of them were CEOs, the highest share since 2012. Chief executives gained seats even as the class shrank, so functional executives seeking a first board are competing for fewer openings.
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Ten-year Treasury yields reached 5.27%, the highest since June 2007, with real yields supplying 66 of the five-year's 72bp monthly rise. The bond market is pricing a strong economy, while Goldman Sachs finds the median S&P 500 stock already 16% below its 52-week high.
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Goldman Sachs says half of S&P 500 members sit 16% or more below their 52-week highs while the index is about 1% off its record. The gap points to a few heavily weighted AI stocks carrying the index as Treasury and European bond yields keep climbing.
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S&P 500 stocks earn 3.8% against a 2.86% real yield on 10-year TIPS, a premium under one point versus a long-run 3.5% average, Fortune calculates. Only brief spells in the financial crisis and the COVID crash, when earnings collapsed, have produced a thinner cushion in more than two decades.
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More than 80% of 401(k)s default into mostly cap-weighted target-date funds that buy more of the Magnificent Seven, about 30% of the S&P 500, as they grow. At Amazon, a paper gain on Anthropic supplied almost $17 billion of nearly $30 billion in first-quarter net income.
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The S&P 500 gained 235% in the decade to December 2025 against 87% for Case-Shiller home prices, before dividends. That gap favors renting and investing, though it leans on a run of double-digit stock years last matched in the late 1990s.
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Teneo found 87% of S&P 500 companies that issued sustainability reports last year did so again in 2026, even as demographic disclosure fell to 64% from 92%. The reporting that survives is quieter and built more closely around EU and ISSB frameworks, and boards will plan their 2027 reports from that version.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.23% on Friday, the highest since June 2007, while consumer spending tracked toward 4% growth. A curve rising from 4.90% on the 2-year to above 5.51% on the 30-year fits a growing economy better than a frightened one.
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July CPI at 0.1% and flat PPI took the near-term rate scare off the table. What is left holding up records above 7,800 is a bet on how long GPUs stay useful.
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Meta rose about 13% and Microsoft more than 4% in a week that took the 10-year Treasury yield past 5.2% and October Fed hike odds to 66%. Both moved on their own company news, and at 23 times forward earnings Meta now yields less than the Treasury.
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Goldman Sachs says a record share of S&P 500 stocks now show negative beta, nearing half the index over a short recent window. The readings track how far a few AI names set the index's direction, so a low-beta portfolio can hold risks its beta hides.
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Pay Governance found just 19% of S&P 500 pay plans opposed by both ISS and Glass Lewis failed in 2026, down from 50% in 2022. The weight now sits with the five largest asset managers, whose own voting frameworks backed pay 95.6% of the time.
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Almost all of Oracle's near-30% revenue growth came from the single segment that rents AI servers. The buildout behind it runs on debt, and the backlog it feeds is nearly half one customer's contract.
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Only 35% of S&P 500 stocks are beating an index up more than 13% in 2026, while a quarter of its members have fallen 10% or more. Over ten years, Trivariate Research finds just 23% of stocks beat the index, so thin breadth has made stock picking a low-odds bet.
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The study is BairesDev's own. Its chairman, Nacho De Marco, writes that boards set aggressive AI targets and then make the next round of decisions on the flattering progress reports that come back to them.
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The letter reads four breadth and credit divergences as a major market top forming. The most recent episode it cites, the weeks before April 2, 2025, was followed by a selloff the index has since recovered.
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