Articles Tagged 'S&P 500'

Stock Market 2025 Recap: Winners, Losers & Sector Analysis

The U.S. stock market closed 2025 with a 16.39% S&P 500 return, marking three consecutive years of double-digit gains. However, beneath the headline numbers lies a complex story of dramatic sector dispersion, Magnificent Seven divergence reaching 60 percentage points, and unprecedented data storage stock returns exceeding 500%. This comprehensive analysis examines the AI Deployment Phase transition, Federal Reserve rate cuts impact, sector-by-sector performance across all 11 S&P sectors, the small-cap renaissance, and identifies the year's spectacular winners and devastating losers with database-verified year-end data.