{"id":823410,"date":"2026-07-25T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823410\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:17:27","slug":"sp-500-index-edges-higher-as-investors-weigh-geopolitical-tensions-ai-spending-concerns-and-upcoming-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823410\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P 500: Index edges higher as investors weigh geopolitical tensions, AI spending concerns and upcoming earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The S&amp;P 500 edged ever so modestly higher in the final moments of the session, despite the prospect of a pending \u201cmassive\u201d US attack on Iran and lingering worries about artificial intelligence spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur base case is that the rally in the index will resume later this year, before a substantial correction takes place in 2027,\u201d Capital Economics\u2019 John Higgins said in a note. \u201cBut we think there is also a possibility that it may have already peaked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The S&amp;P 500 edged ever so modestly higher in the final moments of the session, despite the prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-823410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}