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News of the day for Dec. 20, 2024

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Investors are expecting more gains for the U.S. stock market in 2025 after two straight standout years, fueled by a solid economy supporting corporate profits, moderating interest rates and pro-growth policies from incoming president Donald Trump. The benchmark S&P 500 is up over 23% year-to-date, even with a recent speed bump, and is on pace for its second straight year of gains exceeding 20%, lifted by megacap tech stocks and excitement over the business potential of artificial intelligence. Investors are more confident about the economy than this time a year ago, with consumers and businesses having absorbed higher interest rates and the Federal Reserve now lowering them - albeit by not as much as hoped.

Political chaos in Washington has stocks on pace for their worst week of the year.

Over the past several years there has been increased public discussion of manufacturing, particularly of ‘reshoring’ in the manufacturing sector. The consensus is that a sector-wide move in that direction is necessary, to reverse the effects of previous decades when much of the US manufacturing plant was moved abroad, to Mexico or East Asia. While reshoring remains more of a policy conversation than a full-scale movement, it has nonetheless influenced recent federal elections. It’s no coincidenc

U.S. government shutdown fears and fresh trade war threats cast another cloud over Wall Street as a bruising final full trading week of the year comes to a close and dampens what had been a stellar year for U.S. stocks. Already sideswiped by what was seen as a 'hawkish cut' in Federal Reserve interest rates on Wednesday, where the central bank lifted both its 2025 policy rate and inflation projections, the S&P 500 was in the red again late Thursday and futures were down almost 1% before Friday's bell. A spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S. House of Representatives late Thursday as dozens of Republicans defied the President-elect, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert a fast-approaching government shutdown that could disrupt Christmas travel.

Fed Chair Jay Powell did nothing particularly surprising on Wednesday, but markets reacted sharply. The strong reaction does not portend smooth sailing in the year ahead as the uncertainty Powell referenced arrives.

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