The S&P 500 on Friday rose for𓃲 a ninth consecutive session, its longest winning streak in more than two decades.
The benchmark index of U.S. stocks advanced 1.5% Friday after Chinese officials 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:signaled interest in ending the trade ൲war with the U.S. Friday’s gains capped off the index's longest streak since November 2004.
Friday's rally also erased all of the S&P 500's post-"Liberation Day" losses. The index, which in mid-April was down more than 15% from the start of the year, is now down less than 4% year-to-date.
Investors have slowly regained their appetite for risk after President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement in early April prompted one of 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:the worst stock sell-offs in decades. A slew of solid earnings reports and hope for tariff relief have helped the S&P 500 rise nearly 8.7% in the last eight sessions, its biggest rally of that length s🐓ince November 2020 when stocks were buoyed by the completion of Covid-19 vaccines.
Markets rose broadly Friday, with all three leading US indexes gaining more than 1%. Read Investopedia's full coverage of 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:today's trading here.
Update—May 2, 2025: This story was updated to reflect the market close on Friday.