{"id":173263,"date":"2025-12-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/us-stocks-are-set-for-a-third-straight-year-of-stellar-gains\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:20:13","slug":"us-stocks-are-set-for-a-third-straight-year-of-stellar-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/us-stocks-are-set-for-a-third-straight-year-of-stellar-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/31\/investing\/year-gains-us-stock-market\">US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/31\/investing\/year-gains-us-stock-market\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/31\/investing\/year-gains-us-stock-market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The US stock market experienced a rare trend: three consecutive years of double-digit gains. The S&amp;P 500 rose 17% in 2025, following 23% in 2024 and 24% in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>The gains were achieved despite concerns about tariffs, geopolitical turmoil, a government shutdown, and fears of a bubble.<\/li>\n<li>Strong corporate earnings, enthusiasm about AI, and optimism regarding potential interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve contributed to the market surge.<\/li>\n<li>Despite brief volatility due to concerns about AI investments and tariffs, stocks rebounded when those fears subsided, boosted by the confidence in superior US AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>The Nasdaq, heavily influenced by tech and AI stocks, became the best-performing index for the past three years.<\/li>\n<li>The year also saw significant price movements in commodities and precious metals, including a record surge in gold futures.<\/li>\n<li>US dollar weakened against other major currencies, which was partly a result of lower interest rates and policy uncertainties.<\/li>\n<li>International markets also performed well, particularly in Asia where tech and defense sectors saw significant growth, although Bitcoin suffered an end-of-year decline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/31\/investing\/year-gains-us-stock-market Publish Date: 2025-12-31&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2254064214-1.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173265,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173263\/revisions\/173265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}