4 Things On Our Radar

2025-01-04 02:40:00 ET

Summary

• The S&P 500 is slightly lower in morning trading on Friday, after losing ground in each of the last five trading sessions, stretching back into the December holiday period.
• Since its last record high on December 6, the S&P 500 has lost around 3.6 percent, well within the norm for these types of things.
• We will be paying close attention to what banks and other financial institutions have to say about their credit card receivables and nonperforming loans when they start to report Q4 earnings.
• We keep looking for reasons to be even slightly excited about investment opportunities outside the US, and we keep coming up shorthanded.

Markets are trying to find their footing as the year gets underway, so far without much success. The S&P 500 is slightly lower in morning trading on Friday after losing ground in each of the last five trading sessions, stretching back into the December holiday period....

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