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The S&P 500 Is Following Earnings Higher—Perhaps a Lot HigherEd Yardeni, founder and CEO at Yardeni Research, lifted his year-end price target for the S&P 500 by just over 7%, taking it to 8250 from 7700, a level that suggests gains of more than 11.5% from the benchmark’s close Friday of 7398. Yardeni also thinks the benchmark will hit 10,000 by the end of 2029, adding in a note published Sunday that such an elevated reading might “arrive ahead of schedule” in the new market paradigm. The push comes amid an historic change in earnings forecasts, for both this year and next, that has lifted stocks more than 16.6% since the market bottomed out on March 30, powered in large part by advances in artificial intelligence and gains for the Magnificent Seven tech giants.
