The S&P 500 may have another record up its sleeve. The market benchmark turned 0.1% higher around noon ET on Wednesday after marking its highest close on record on Tuesday. Roughly 270 of the stocks in the index were on the rise.

Vanguard Group's Standard & Poor's 500 ETF overtook rival State Street Global Advisors' SPDR S&P 500 Trust, on Tuesday to become the world's largest exchange-traded fund, according to data from FactSet. The widely anticipated event was the result of $2.8 billion in outflows from SPY on Tuesday, in tandem with inflows of $305 million into the rival Vanguard fund the same day. That left VOO in the lead with assets of $632.2 billion by the end of the day on Tuesday, compared to $630.4 billion for SPY, the FactSet data showed.

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Hopeful investors are holding their breadth. For the past two years, it has been hard to escape the Magnificent Seven, the big tech stocks that powered so much of the recent bull run that they now account for about a third of the an index that is weighted by market capitalization. Although the stocks— Alphabet Amazon.com Apple Meta Platforms Nvidia and Tesla —don’t really trade in lockstep, meaning the market risk they pose isn’t as concentrated as it appears at first blush, investors have long been hopeful that more stocks would join in the rally.

The Zacks Staffing Firms industry is hindered by the manufacturing sector's economic downturn. However, HSII, CCRN and HQI are likely to be the leading entities to witness steady service demand, and the rising adoption of remote work and technology.

For the first time in nearly four weeks, the S 500 tallied a fresh closing high on Tuesday. Investors who have kept some or all of their portfolios on the sidelines over the past couple of years might be wondering: Is it too late to get in on the action?

Shares of energy drink company Celsius (NASDAQ: CELH) surprisingly jumped on Wednesday after the company announced when it would release quarterly financial results and announced that it would participate in an investor conference. After the market closed yesterday, Celsius issued a press release. In some investors' minds, this can only mean one thing: Celsius must have good news to share with investors and it wants to get the financial report out there so that it can discuss it at the conference.

Despite near-term weakness in the electric power industry, utilities like VST, EXC, ETR and AEE are set to benefit from their systematic investments, which allow them to serve their customers efficiently.

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According to a new report from the Information, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) is exploring a potential investment in DeepSeek, an emerging Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup. DeepSeek recently made waves in the AI industry by positioning itself as a cost-effective alternative to Western AI models, sending shockwaves through US technology stocks. Catalysts hosts Madison Mills and Alexandra Canal analyze the strategic implications of this potential investment in the competitive global AI landscape. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Angel Smith