The stock market may soon get much-needed support from a surprising source: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s low popularity rating. That’s because there is an inverse relationship between presidential approval ratings and the stock market,

U.S. stock indexes closed their best week in two months with a flourish on Friday. The S&P 500 climbed 1% to clinch its first winning week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 334 points,

While there's no guarantee the stock market will crash in 2025 under President Donald Trump, history suggests it's a practical lock that the major indexes will generate a healthy total return for investors over the next 20 years.

Stocks closed out the week with a bang as Treasury yields retreated from recent highs. Optimism is swirling ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, which also happens to be a stock market holiday. Indeed, both the equities and bond markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The S&P 500 index SPX is clinging to a gain of just 0.8% since Election Day on Nov. 5, threatening to erase the “Trump bump” investors attributed to Donald Trump’s victory. The performance is on track to be the weakest Election Day-to-Inauguration Day run since the run-up to Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 amid a global financial crisis.