Select Wall Street Analysts Are Raising Their S&P 500 Targets for 2025. Here's What You Should Do, Based on Decades of History.

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) was down by as much as 19% from its all-time high after President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on America's trading partners in April. Analysts at almost every top investment firm on Wall Street agreed the tariffs would trigger an economic slowdown, which would dent corporate earnings.As a result, they raced to slash their 2025 price targets for the S&P 500, and some of them even predicted the index would deliver a negative return for the year. But optimism crept back onto Wall Street after Trump quickly paused some of the harsher tariffs. Plus, in another positive turn of events, a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade on May 28 suggested the president never had grounds to impose the tariffs at all. This decision was paused by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, setting the stage for a legal battle over the next month.The S&P 500 is steadily recovering, and at least two top analysts have partly reversed their recent price target cuts. These swings can be very difficult to navigate, but history provides a very clear playbook for dealing with stock market volatility. Here's what investors should do.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool