"If you had invested $1 million in the S&P 500 on January 1, 2021, your return today would be $660,000, of which more than half would have come from the top 10 biggest companies in the index, Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, said in a Friday note that featured the chart above.

A solid earnings season shows Corporate America’s profit engine is humming along, potentially easing worries that the record-setting rally in US stocks is starting to overheat.

So far this week, the S&P 500 has ended every day at a new high. The moves have been modest—on Thursday, the index advanced just 0.07%—but this is the longest streak of closing records since December,

If the S&P 500 has been such a great investment, surely adding a few smart tweaks should make it even better, right? That’s been the theory behind dozens of factor-based spinoffs.

While there are a lot of cap-weighted S&P 500 ETFs available for purchase, there aren't very many equal-weight index funds. The best option for U.S. investors is the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF ( RSP -0.04%).

The S&P 500 is at an all-time high, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad time to invest. The S&P 500 is at its all-time high as I'm writing this, and it might seem like a bad time to put your money in index funds that track the popular benchmark.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched record high closes on Wednesday, lifted by Nvidia and GE Vernova, as the European Union and the U.S. appeared headed toward a trade deal similar to an agreement President Donald Trump struck with Japan.

The brokerage firm’s stock has risen 334% over the past year and Robinhood now has a market capitalization of $92 billion.

GE Vernova Inc. is among the S&P 500 index’s leaders after the power and renewable-energy company reported better-than-expected second-quarter results and lowered its expectation for the impact of tariffs.