Ben Welsh

Oct 30, 2024 | reuters.com | Ben Welsh

These are the most capitalized companies listed by the S&P 500, the U.S. market’s most-watched benchmark. The table updates at the end of each trading day. The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here. Market value is measured using the total value of all outstanding shares, which investors call market capitalization. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Oct 30, 2024 | reuters.com | Ben Welsh

A cowboy actor is silhouetted as he takes part in a skit for tourists at the Cinema Studios Fort Bravo in southeastern Spain, where Steve McQueen charged the barren hills in 1960’s "The Magnificent Seven" REUTERS/Victor FraileMichael Hartnett can’t predict the future, but he’s giving it his best shot. As the chief investment strategist at BofA Global Research, he’s part of a team that analyzes the economy to produce forecasts of where the market is headed.

Oct 30, 2024 | reuters.com | Ben Welsh |Noel Randewich

They’re Wall Street’s big guns. Stocks with so much swagger that they earned a nickname conjured from Hollywood’s golden age. As a group, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla have racked up the lion’s share of the market’s gains in recent years, roaring to nearly one-third of the S&P 500’s total capitalization.

Oct 30, 2024 | palewi.re | Ben Welsh

Data dashboards are now one of the standard storytelling templates at reuters.com, joining the familiar journalistic arsenal of text articles, photo galleries and blogs. Going forward, publishing a live-updating collection of charts, maps and tables will require nothing more than a few points and clicks. First through the gate is "The Magnificent Seven Monitor," which tracks the ongoing performance of the heavyweight U.S. technology stocks that dominate the market.

Aug 3, 2024 | muckrock.com | Ben Welsh

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