These are the sectors we’d expect to outperform in a bull market; defensive sectors like consumer staples lagged last year, as did energy ... But only 1 of the top 5 S&P 500 constituents ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience ... was up 0.5% at 5,910 in the opening minutes of trading Thursday. Below, we take a closer look at the S&P 500’s chart and identify important technical ...

That means the index has returned more than 20% in two consecutive calendar years, something it last did in 1998 ... dot-com bubble. The chart below shows how the S&P 500 performed during the ...