Wall Street has a poor track record when it comes to forecasting the future performance of the stock market. Since 2020, there has been a 17-percentage-point discrepancy between analysts' median year-end forecast for the S&P 500 and where the index actually finished each year, according to Goldman Sachs.

Stocks hit all-time highs following early-morning news that former President Donald Trump is once again President-elect Donald Trump. US yields jumped and the dollar saw its best day since 2022 as investors cheered the Republican’s return to the presidency and the potential for what increasingly looks like his party’s control of both houses of Congress.