US stocks closed mixed Tuesday, but the benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) was able to eke out a new record as Wall Street digested a new batch of earnings, including a tariff warning from General Motors (GM),

Wall Street's reliance on a small number of high market-value stocks to keep momentum going for the U.S. equities bull market will be tested in coming days as major technology and growth companies report earnings.

I maintain a buy rating on XLG, as rate cuts and economic stability should fuel further gains in large-cap tech stocks.

US stocks closed mixed on Monday, but the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 managed to notch fresh records. Wall Street began a busy week of Big Tech-highlighted earnings and eyed the

Retail investors are largely behind the stock market reaching new records, buying $50 billion in stocks in the last month alone, Barclays estimated.

Krispy Kreme and GoPro were among the companies riding the latest meme stock rally on Wednesday, as retail traders latched on to the highly shorted names a day after piling into the shares of department store company Kohl's.

Like a far-off thunder cloud, there are some rumblings around the stock market, warning that current sunny skies and new highs could give way to a late summer market storm.

The yield on the 10-year hit a 52-week high of 4.896% on January 13, a week before Trump's second inauguration, and traded as low as 3.860% on April 4 before spiking to 4.607% on May 21, then settling at 4.431% on July 18.

Barry Bannister is one of Wall Street's biggest bears, even as stocks barrel to fresh records on a wave of bullishness for AI and stable economic growth.

The chip firm could get a boost from Elon Musk's xAI and Alphabet's Google as they race to build artificial intelligence.