He is also a freelance financial writer on a wide variety of topics. Bloomberg/Getty Images The S&P 500—the Standard & Poor's 500 Index—is considered to be one of the best measures of U.S ...

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The S&P 500 Index will rise through the end of next year amid continued US economic expansion and earnings growth, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief equity strategist David Kostin.