Only a few months into 2025, the sharp decline of the U.S. stock market has prompted some of Wall Street’s top forecasters to scale back their bullish predictions for the S&P 500. In the past week alone,

Wall Street was poised to open with healthy gains on Friday, but nowhere near enough to make up for the losses that have piled up in recent weeks as anxious investors flee for safer holdings in the midst of an escalating U.

U.S. stocks are rallying, but not by enough to keep Wall Street from a fourth straight losing week. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% in early Friday trading, a day after