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The rise in shorts comes amid several factors including the amount of distressed debt falling to the lowest this year and US economic growth continuing to confound sceptics.

Strength in corporate earnings and the US economy more broadly should keep driving the stock market higher in 2025, according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset management division.

A Harris victory, along with a clean sweep of Congress by the Democrats, should be “neutral to positive” for both equities and bonds, says Vasu Menon, managing director of investment strategy at OCBC.

The S&P 500 Index is expected to post an annualized nominal total return of just 3% over the next 10 years.

The S&P 500 is on track to outperform the rest of the world in eight of the last 10 years.

Chew expects a market pullback, with laggards having a smaller downside.

Traders are looking to weekly jobless claims figures for clues as to whether the US' labour market is weakening further.

Four investment experts tell us what investors need to know about key issues in the market as they position their portfolios ahead

In other news this week: US yield curve steepens as Fed rate cuts loom; S&P 500 snaps longest streak.

A version of the S&P 500 that strips out market-cap bias just posted the best two-week stretch.