Wall Street is in an upbeat mood as it gears up for a pivotal week featuring the Federal Reserve’s expected interest-rate cut and a barrage of Big Tech earnings, as well as Trump's visit to Asia.

The stock market rally has already defied expectations this year, shrugging off geopolitical strife, economic uncertainty and global trade tensions to reach fresh record highs. Some analysts say the rally might just be getting started.

Despite a rough patch in the earlier part of the year in response to the Trump administration's tariff plan, it has been a good year so far for the stock market's three main index

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Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Updates will appear here as they are published. Markets are pushing aggressively higher again. At the moment, futures are exploding.

The pressure is on top companies to keep reporting earnings that beat Wall Street’s forecasts—and failure to do so could be met with severe consequences.

Buffett has long advised investors against market timing. After all, over long periods of time, stock markets tend to rise in value. If you're jumping in and out of the market, that means your money has less time invested. And because most of the time markets go up, less time invested results in lower overall returns.

Investors buying stocks with borrowed money suggests confidence that the market will keep rising. If only that were true.

Mark Cuban says that the elimination of billionaires would trigger a stock market crash, potentially erasing the savings of average Americans. In a post on BlueSky last week, Cuban opposed the idea that wealth inequality could be mitigated by taxing or capping the wealth of billionaires.

The Federal Reserve's recent rate cut may signal a big move in the stock market, but there's more to the story.